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Title:Literature and Political Economy: Arthur Shearly Cripps and the Makoni Labour Crisis of 1911
Author:Ranger, Terence O.ISNI
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.
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