Beyond racism in Mister Johnson : Joyce Cary's love for the colonized Nigerian, and critique of the British empire.

• Main Author: Ong, Herrick Wee Siong.
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52269
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...