Conrad's Trojan Horses: Imperialism, Hybridity, and the Postcolonial Aesthetic

by Tom Henthorne

Book Overview

With references to his work appearing everywhere from the New Yorker to The Simpsons, Joseph Conrad remains one of the twentieth century's most widely discussed literary figures. And yet it may be that an abundant scholarship has pigeonholed Conrad as an early modernist. Tom Henthorne counters that Conrad's work can be best understood in relation to that of such early twentieth-century writers as S. K. Ghosh and Solomon Plaatje--postcolonialists who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726339
• ISBN13: 9780896726338
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"