"The chapters of this book are revised versions of papers given at a conference that took place in December 2011 at the University of Cape Town and at the Goedgedacht Trust Olive Farm in the Western Cape, South Africa" (Preface)
Section 1: Language, culture and history. Humans and animals in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Kai WiegandtBloody racists of 1899: some fictional contexts for Conrad's alleged racism in Heart of darkness / by Andrew Glazzard -- Penetrating the impenetrable in Conrad's fiction / by Jeremy Hawthorn -- Heart of darkness as chronotope: Conradian avatars in fiction, criticism, publishing and pedagogy / by Russell West-Pavlov -- At the dying of two centuries: Heart of darkness and Disgrace / by David Medalie -- Victory, music and the world of finance / by Konstantin Sofianos -- The paradox of progress: far-reaching deliberations and 10 per cent loans / by Robert Hampson -- Section 2: Writing and genre in Conrad's fiction. Heroes of the real: Conrad's epic without a cause / by Josiane Paccaud-Huguet -- Being elsewhere: Conrad, Malinowski and the anxiety of storytelling / by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Going about: Conrad's progress in A personal record / by Douglas Kerr -- Duo, trio and quartette: a comparative reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's and Lloyd Osbourne's The ebb-tide and Joseph Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Jürgen Kramer -- Irony and narrative distance: imperialist critique in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Jakob Lothe -- 'Positioning' the reader in Conrad's Marlow narratives and in Ngũgĩ's wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat / by Gail Fincham.