1st Edition
Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity
Introduction: Conrad as a Poetic Rememberer
Chapter One: Future-oriented Remembering: Almayer’s Folly and A Personal Record
Chapter Two: Memory as An Interpretative Feat: "An Outpost of Progress," Heart of Darkness, and the Other
Chapter Three: Community-mediated Memory: Remembering Lord Jim
Chapter Four: Emotion-mediated Memory: The Conflation of Past and Present in The Shadow-Line
Conclusion: A New Metaphor of Memory
Biography
Xiaoling Yao is Lecturer of English at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. She obtained her PhD in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include memory, narrative identity, spatiality, and modernist literature and culture.
