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A hundred years after his death, the life and legacy of the Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad remains deeply felt in a wide range of global cultural contexts. The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture brings together scholars of wide-ranging backgrounds to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work. Ranging from Conrad’s influence upon contemporary writers, to the impact of his translators and his adaptation within film and graphic novels, this volume illuminates how Conrad’s approach to questions of moral ambiguity and the haunting complexities of colonialism continues to inform the cultural output of our modern, globalized world.
“[This] is another exciting and ambitious contribution to Conrad studies, providing a powerful insight into the writer’s biographical and fictional world by scholars in Conrad studies of various nationalities and cultures. The texts cover a wide range of topics from Conrad’s biography and translations, well-known artists in relation to Conrad to his influence across different media such as films, comics and graphic novels. Every essay here is a blend of deep thought and rigorous analysis.” • Brygida Pudełko, University of Opole
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech is Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia and President of the Joseph Conrad Society, Poland. She has published several monographs on Conrad, translation studies, and adaptation studies, the most recent of which is Adaptations of J. Conrad’s Life and Works in Contemporary Culture (Katowice, 2022). Essays on Conrad aside, she has written on Robert Browning, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, William Golding, Harold Pinter, and Jatinder Verma. She sits on the editorial boards of The Conradian, Conradiana and Yearbook of Conrad Studies.
List of Figures
Introduction: The Conrad-Effect in Contemporary Culture
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
Part I: Conrad: Biography and Translation
Chapter 1. After My Intellectual Biography of Joseph Conrad: Further Lines of Research
Richard Ambrosini
Chapter 2. Conrad’s Echo in Anne Carson’s Nay Rather: The Task of the Artist as Translator
Kaoru Yamamoto
Chapter 3. Jacek Dukaj Rewriting Heart of Darkness. Perspectives and Controversies
Karol Samsel
Part II: Conrad and Film
Chapter 4. Conrad’s Resonance in Chantal Akerman’s La Folie Almayer: A ‘Camera’ of Echoes
Julie Gay
Chapter 5. Descendants of Conrad’s ‘The Secret Sharer’
Laurence Davies
Chapter 6. Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Decolonisation
Robert Hampson
Chapter 7. Testimony is Resistance: An Afterlife of Conrad in African Apocalypse
Rob Lemkin
Chapter 8. From Conrad to Horror Films
Michel Arouimi
Part III: Conrad and Contemporary Writers
Chapter 9. Joseph Conrad’s Avatars: Modernism, Lord Jim, and John Le Carré’s Our Game
Stephen Brodsky
Chapter 10. Burgess’ Co-Habitation with Conrad
Jan B. Gordon
Chapter 11. The Resonance of Conrad in Portrayals of South Africa
Joanna Skolik
Part IV: Conrad Illustrated
Chapter 12. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the French Revolution of 1789
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
Chapter 13. Illustrating Conrad – A Comprehensive Bibliography
Frank Förster
Afterword: The Enduring Echo of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
Index of Non-Fictional Names
Index of Conrad’s Works