Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze Andre Gide’s views on the situation ´ in the Congo, where the writer went as an official envoy of the Minister of the Colonies in 1926. His stay in Africa resulted in Voyage au Congo (1927). Gide’s observations of native inhabitants prompted him to take a critical attitude towards the policy of France in the colony. Gide perceived the manifestations of pathology and inhumane treatment of the Africans by the colonizers, but he by no means undermined the system based on exploitation and the dominance of the white man. He saw the healing of the situation in enhancing the administration and increasing the educated staff of the colonial power.
Author: Małgorzata Kamecka
Institutions: University of Białystok, University of Warsaw
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3129190017