Juhasz Tamas Conradian Contracts: Exchange and Identity in the Immigrant Imagination 9780739145531

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Автор: Juhasz Tamas
Название: Conradian Contracts: Exchange and Identity in the Immigrant Imagination
ISBN: 9780739145531
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 0739145533
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 219
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 28.04.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This book treats Joseph Conrads simultaneous interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. The central hypothesis is that the novelists characters face the option of signing or rejecting what might, with some generalization, be called a social covenant. These individuals conduct a lonely or marginal existence and, to ease their isolation, they would like to (re)enter a community. For this reason, they are ready to contribute to larger collective causes and comply with those restrictions that social life, in its contractual aspect, requires. As Julia Kristeva puts it, The foreigner is the one who works, yet engagement in transactions in order to earn a social position is fraught with difficulties. In return for their contribution, these hard-working characters do not always receive the compensation that they had in mind, especially when their definition of companionship violates the boundaries of legality and social propriety. Their private, illicit interests are bound to clash with communal ones, and the ensuing negotiating, readjustment, or compromise-seeking either crush the individual party or result in a redefinition of the notion of contract. This link between exchange and displacement is explored in nine narratives. Just as the concept of exile is used in a broad, often metaphorical sense (ranging from characters who are actual migrants through individuals who occupy a marginal position within their native community to individuals who are caught between conflicting cultural-economic models), the trade or contractual alliance that can create, or at least promise, a sense of communal belonging and personal recognition is also manifold in its definition. Although it always includes, if to varying degrees, the transference of economic goods or entering a specific agreement, exchange is never limited to legal-material procedures.

Conradian Contracts: Exchange and Identity in the Immigrant Imagination, Juhasz Tamas