Literature and Political Economy: Arthur Shearly Cripps and the Makoni Labour Crisis of 1911

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Title:	Literature and Political Economy: Arthur Shearly Cripps and the Makoni Labour Crisis of 1911
Author:	Ranger, Terence O.
Year:	1982
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	9
Issue:	1
Period:	October
Pages:	33-53
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	forced labour novels Literature, Mass Media and the Press History and Exploration colonialism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636731
Abstract:	Arthur S. Cripps, the radical Anglican missionary, who decided to offer for missionary service in Southern Rhodesia as a result of reading Olive Schreiner's 'Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland', wrote a novel about the labour crisis in Makoni district, making it into a parable of the colonial society and economy of Southern Rhodesia as a whole. This essay explores the process of transformation by melodrama, beginning with the facts of the Makoni case as Cripps knew them and then examining his fictional handling of them. Notes.