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- Installment 4
Welcome to Nutting Memorial Library's presentation of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. In this fourth installment, you'll hear Chapters 8 & 9. Follow along in the text at Project Gutenberg, or read the original publication in Blackwood's Magazine from the Internet Archive (volume 167, beginning at page 60).
Gutenberg text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5658
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi166edinuoft/
In this episode, Lauren and Ann discuss their decision to censor a word in the text, with the hope that people who want to study the text and the context of that word will be able to do so by reading the text, while those who do not want to be surprised with that type of language can choose not to hear it in the middle of this podcast. There are a number of articles about this word in particular and its place in literature and today's classrooms. Here are several of those recommendations for you to read further:
- Demby, Gene. “Who Can Use The N-Word? That’s The Wrong Question.” NPR, 6 Sept. 2013, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/06/219737467/who-can-use-the-n-word-thats-the-wrong-question.
- Essien, Enobong. “The N-Word: Confronting Racial Slurs In Literature.” BOOK RIOT, 27 Jan. 2020, https://bookriot.com/2020/01/27/racial-slurs-in-literature/.
- Lopez, German. “Ta-Nehisi Coates Has an Incredibly Clear Explanation for Why White People Shouldn’t Use the n-Word.” Vox, 9 Nov. 2017, https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/9/16627900/ta-nehisi-coates-n-word.
- McWhorter, John. “The Idea That Whites Can’t Refer to the N-Word.” The Atlantic, Aug. 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/whites-refer-to-the-n-word/596872/.
- Pierce, Sean. “Straight Talk About the N-Word.” Teaching Tolerance, no. 40, Fall 2011, https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2011/straight-talk-about-the-nword.
In addition, our conversation briefly touched on the use of the word "Oriental" in the text. For more information about this word and the concept of Orientalism, this text may be of interest to you:
- Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979.
Nutting Memorial Library, and likely your local public or university library, has many more materials on these themes. If you want to learn more about these topics, please contact your librarian for recommendations on further reading.
Recommended Article:
Panagopoulos, Nic. “Orientalism in Lord Jim: The East under Western Eyes.” Conradiana , vol. 45, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 55–82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24643409.
MMA students, faculty, and staff can access the article directly from anywhere: http://ezproxy.mma.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=99244541&site=eds-live
50 min - Installment 3
Welcome to Nutting Memorial Library's presentation of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. In this third installment, you'll hear Chapters 6 & 7. Follow along in the text at Project Gutenberg, or read the original publication in Blackwood's Magazine from the Internet Archive (volume 166, beginning at page 807).
Gutenberg text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5658
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi166edinuoft/
Recommended Article:
Burgoyne, Mary. “'Writing Man to Fighting Man’: Conrad Republished for the Armed Services during the World Wars.” The Conradian, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013, pp. 99–127., www.jstor.org/stable/24614078.
Maine Maritime students, faculty, and staff can access the article directly from anywhere: https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.mma.edu/stable/24614078
1 hr 8 min - Installment 2
Welcome to Nutting Memorial Library's presentation of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. In this second installment, you'll hear Chapter 5. Follow along in the text at Project Gutenberg, or read the original publication in Blackwood's Magazine from the Internet Archive (volume 166, beginning at page 644).
Gutenberg text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5658
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi166edinuoft/
Recommended Article:
Meyers, Jeffrey. “Conrad's Examinations for the British Merchant Service.” Conradiana, vol. 23, no. 2, 1991, pp. 123–132. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24634825.
Maine Maritime students, faculty, and staff can access the article directly from anywhere: https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.mma.edu/stable/24634825
47 min - Installment 1
Welcome to Nutting Memorial Library's presentation of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. In this first installment, you'll hear Chapters 1 through 4. Follow along in the text at Project Gutenberg, or read the original publication in Blackwood's Magazine from the Internet Archive (volume 166, beginning at page 441).
Gutenberg text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5658
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi166edinuoft/
Recommended Article:
Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction, by Randall Stevenson, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2018, pp. 27–46. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1tqxtw6.6.
Maine Maritime students, faculty, and staff can access the article directly from anywhere: http://ezproxy.mma.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.mma.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1923869&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover
1 hr 3 min
About Lord Jim
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A reading of Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad, presented by Maine Maritime Academy's Nutting Memorial Library. Join us each week for an installment of the story, one of tragedy, adventure, and redemption…
that begins with a life-changing decision made by a young sailor in a moment of crisis.