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Decolonising the Conrad Canon

By (author) Alice M. Kelly

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With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon shows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings. This book finds pockets of powerful anti-colonial resistance and queer dissonance in Joseph Conradâ€™s lesser-known works â€“ breathing spaces from the colonial rhetoric that dominates his novels â€“ and traces the female characters who voice them off the page and into their transmedia (digital/illustrative/cinematic) afterlives. From Immada and Edithâ€™s queer gaze in The Rescue and the periodical illustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to AÃ¯ssaâ€™s sustained critique of imperialism in An Outcast of the Islands and her portrayal on mass-market paperback book covers, to the structural female bonds of Almayerâ€™s Folly and Ninaâ€™s embodiment in Chantal Akermanâ€™s adaptation La Folie Almayer, this book centres Conradâ€™s female characters as viable, meaning-making citizens of the canon. Through this intervention, Decolonising the Conrad Canon proposes an innovative model for teaching, reading and studying not just Joseph Conradâ€™s work but the colonial literary canon more broadly.