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Title:Joseph Conrad and British Critics of Colonialism
Author:Zins, H.S.ISNI
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)ISNI
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) pseud. for Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Edmund Dene Morel (1873-1924)ISNI
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.
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