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S/LI/422. Representations of imperial colonialism by Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad

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2010
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The paper looks at the novel ‘The Beach of Falesa' by Robert Louis Stevenson discussing his critiques of colonial intervention in the Pacific while romanticising western life. Stevenson's attitudes expressed in the novel are compared to those of Joseph Conrad and his anti-colonial exposure of imperialist evils in the ‘Heart of Darkness'.

 

KEYWORDS: Stevenson, The Beach of Falesa, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, imperial colonialism,

 
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