Browsing by Author "Kennedy, V."
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Item Open Access Conrad, efficiency, and the varieties of imperialism(Texas Tech University Press, 2012) Kennedy, V.The article examines 18th century Polish novelist Joseph Conrad's fiction in relation to different conceptions of imperialism and capitalism. Topics covered include his attitude towards "Englishness," the value of efficiency and on the British "work ethic." Also analyzed are his representation of Russian and German imperialism in the political essays and the suggestion that his fiction undermines the opposition in his nonfiction writings between different types of imperialism.Item Open Access Conradian quest versus dubious adventure: Graham and Barbara Greene in West Africa(Taylor and Francis., 2015) Kennedy, V.Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps (1936) largely conforms to the masculine tradition of imperialist travel writing, where the male protagonist emerges as the (sometimes conflicted) hero of his own narrative. Much of Journey Without Maps explores Liberia and Greene's psyche, creating parallels between Africa, the narrator's childhood, and the childhood of the human race, and embodying these parallels in a dense web of tropes and allusions. By contrast, as a woman, Barbara Greene is much less implicated in the imperialist tradition of travel writing, and at times Too Late to Turn Back disrupts some of the assumptions of this tradition through the demystification of the trope of adventure and excitement, the sporadic mockery of self and others, the self-deprecation, and the greater emphasis on reciprocity than is to be found in Journey Without Maps.Item Open Access Dickens and Savagery at home and abroad-part I(The Dickens Fellowship, 2008) Kennedy, V.Item Open Access Dickens and Savagery at home and abroad-part II(The Dickens Fellowship, 2008) Kennedy, V.