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Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-colonialism, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, Jakob Lothe (Eds.) : book review
This collection of conference papers takes its title from Conrad's \"An Outpost of Progress\" (1897) an early short story which already signals the concerns that would inform his oeuvre throughout his life. Darkly ironic and detached in tone, that tale scrutinises imperialist activities in Africa and questions accepted notions of \"progress\", \"civilisation\", and the myth of European superiority. As the tale charts the gradual degeneration and, finally, the deaths of two incompetent agents (representatives of the Great Trading Company) the narrative's cool indictment of these \"pioneers of trade and progress\" anticipates the more profound and sophisticated web of ironies that would inform Heart of Darkness two years later.
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