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    ‘Savage times come again’ : Morel, Wells, and the African Soldier, c.1885-1920

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    The African soldier trained in western combat was a figure of fear and revulsion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My article examines representations of African soldiers in nonfictional writings by E.D. Morel about the Congo Free State (1885-1908), the same author’s reportage on African troops in post-First World War Germany, and H.G. Wells’s speculative fiction When the Sleeper Wakes (1899, 1910). In each text racist and anti-colonialist discourses converge in representing the African soldier as the henchman of corrupt imperialism. His alleged propensity for taboo crimes of cannibalism and rape are conceived as threats to white safety and indeed supremacy. By tracing Wells’s connections to the Congo reform campaign and situating his novel between two phases of Morel’s writing career, I interpret When the Sleeper Wakes as neither simply a reflection of past events in Africa or as a prediction of future ones in Europe. It is rather a transcultural text which reveals the impact of European culture upon the ‘Congo atrocities’, and the inscription of this controversy upon European popular cultural forms and social debates

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    Folleto impreso titulado "La ejecución de Sir Roger Casement: El terrorismo inglés".Casement, R. (1916). Folleto impreso titulado "La ejecución de Sir Roger Casement: El terrorismo inglés". Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Valencia. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/2693

    Casement's report on the condition of the Congo state territory

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    Roger CasementAus: West African Mail, 19th Febr. 190
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