Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’’s Malay Fiction: Writing Malaysia

This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad’s Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, and Lord Jim; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad’s fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Robert Hampson is Reader of English Literature at Royal Halloway, University of London.