Exterminate All the Brutes

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Sven Lindqvist: Exterminate All the Brutes (1999, Peter Smith Publisher Inc)

Hardcover

English language

Published June 8, 1999 by Peter Smith Publisher Inc.

ISBN:
978-0-8446-6950-2
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4 stars (1 review)

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tough and direct and eloquent

4 stars

Colonialism has always meant genocidal extinction, and with Kendi-esque clarity Lindqvist charts the shifting justifications and revelations swept aside or welcomed in "civilized" society grappling with these terrors and all too normal evils. The elements of the author's own travelogue and of Conrad's literary and experiential background for "Heart of Darkness" are minor counterpoints to a forceful documentation of societal guilt.

Subjects

  • Africa - General
  • General
  • History - General History
  • Fiction