TY  - GEN
T1  - Tales of an eastern port : the Singapore novellas of Joseph Conrad
A1  - Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
A2  - Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
A2  - Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
A2  - Riordan, Kevin, 1978-
A2  - Riordan, Kevin, 1978-
LA  - English
PP  - Singapore
PB  - NUS Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1398493385
AB  - Singapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he would return to this place many times in his writing. Singapore is the principal, if sometimes obscured, port of call in Conrad's fiction; it is the center of overlapping networks, colonial and commercial, religious and literary. His characters travel to upriver Borneo and to Bangkok, to Shanghai and to Sydney, and yet they tend to return to Singapore.  This volume pairs for the first time two Conrad novellas that start in Singapore: The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line.Together they provide a fleeting portrait of the developing city, through narrators who are uneasy with the trappings and workings of the colonial enterprise. These stories have renewed relevance as part of global modernist and oceanic literatures, and reading them now helps recall one chapter in Singapore's long history as a vital site of cultural exchange, one that harbors and inspires distinctive storytelling traditions.
OP  - 205
CN  - PR6005.O4 A6 2023eb
SN  - 9789813252462
SN  - 9813252464
SN  - 9789813252189
SN  - 9813252189
KW  - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924. : End of the tether.
KW  - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924. : Shadow-line.
KW  - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924
KW  - End of the tether (Conrad, Joseph)
KW  - Shadow-line (Conrad, Joseph)
KW  - Seafaring life : Fiction.
KW  - Ship captains : Fiction.
KW  - Singapore : Fiction.
KW  - Vie en mer : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Capitaines de navire : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Ship captains
KW  - Singapore
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Fiction
ER  -