![]() ![]() The argument of this volume begins with three essays describing enslavement and race in key Melville and Conrad works: “Babo’s Shadow: Tropes of Enslavement/Visions of Race. ![]() What became clear in formal and informal discussion among the participants of that international gam was that Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski shared the intuition that the essential liquidity of the existential human condition necessitates a “universal squeeze of the hand.” This idea, beautifully conceptualized by Melville in chapter 94 of Moby-Dick, caused both writers to examine in their complex narratives the ways in which various kinds of oppression prevent this desired possibility. The volume came about as a result of a joint effort at a bifocal reflection of the international community of Melvilleans and Conradians in Szczecin, Poland, in August, 2007. The goal of this volume of edited essays is to fill a gap on the comparativist chart. ![]()
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