Mapping Prejudices. Africa and India in Colonial Fiction

Africa, the “Dark Continent” and India, the “Jewel of the Crown” – both British colonies, both home to hundreds of different cultures and ethnicities, yet both can be reduced to two distinct catchphrases that trigger an avalanche of pictures and associations. “But they never say no” was an exclamation of utter disbelief when the Mutiny of 1857 took the Indian Raj by complete surprise. That the Zul...