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Title: | Joseph Conrad and British Critics of Colonialism |
Author: | Zins, H.S. |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0256-2316) |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 58-68 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Africa |
Subjects: | anticolonialism literature English language Literature, Mass Media and the Press History, Archaeology Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 imperialism history |
About persons: | Roger David Casement (1864-1916) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) pseud. for Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Edmund Dene Morel (1873-1924) |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/pula/269/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | In discussing early British anticolonial literature of the end of the nineteenth century, the author concentrates on the writings of three distinguished authors who strongly condemned the inhuman exploitation of Africans by Europeans in the Congo Free State: the Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, the French-born British journalist Edmund D. Morel, and the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad. Casement's 1903 'Congo Report' and the creation of the Congo Reform Association by Casement and Morel contributed greatly to the downfall of the Leopoldian system and the annexation of the Congo by Belgium. They mobilized public opinion in Britain against a colonial system which Joseph Conrad had also very strongly condemned in his African novella, 'Heart of Darkness', written in 1898-1899. Notes, ref., sum. |