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Closure and Conrad

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August 2006, no. 283

Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of empire by Terry Collits

Routledge, $176 pb, 226pp

Closure and Conrad

by
August 2006, no. 283

Through the significant cultural presence of Heart of Darkness, I am regularly confronted with the work of Joseph Conrad in my everyday life: an elephant in Disney’s Tarzan exclaims ‘the horror’ at the sight of a human camp; a young man reads the novella on a ship bound for Skull Island in the latest King Kong; and, during the fortnight while I am writing this review, Radio National is broadcasting a serialised reading of the novella each afternoon. In Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire, Terry Collits wonders ‘how … we may read and understand Conrad nowadays’. With so many cultural claims to just one Conradian text, such a question is timely.

Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of empire

Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of empire

by Terry Collits

Routledge, $176 pb, 226pp

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