Beyond racism in Mister Johnson : Joyce Cary's love for the colonized Nigerian, and critique of the British empire.
Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) is named after the protagonist, a young and lively Nigerian clerk who, we are told in the preface to the novel, “turns his life into a romance[;] he is a poet who creates for himself a glorious destiny.” (Cary 5). Johnson, about seventeen years of age and awkwardly...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52269 |