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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2015
      23 April 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316145579
      9781107093980
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316145579
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 248 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.

    Awards

    Winner, 2017 Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies, The Joseph Conrad Society of America

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