Abstract
The article presents an analysis of texts by a multitude of authors who deal with Roger Casement’s writings, aiming at assessing how those authors fabricate a discourse based on alleged acts in order to perpetuate a representation of Casement’s persona. Casement ends up being both a hero – up until his arrest and condemnation as a traitor to the British Empire – and an antihero – not only after his arrest but also and specially after his Black diaries were uncovered, bringing about Casement’s disappearance from the public’s view as an important humanist and character in British and Irish histories. The article also tackles the close relation between Casement and the main characters in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Highlights
In other words, I am interested in assessing how authors fabricate a discourse based on alleged facts in order to perpetuate a representation of Casement’s persona both as a hero – up until his arrest on April 21, 1916 – and as an antihero – ater his arrest and and especially ater his Black Diaries were uncovered. he fact that those diaries were revealed even before Casement’s execution, contrary to
In tune with Angus Mitchell’s arguments in his attempt to prove that Casement’s Black Diaries are the product of a forgery, one is prone to detect a clear process of fabrication of Roger Casement as an antiheroic igure. he discourses produced from the reading of the Black Diaries are responsible for the alleged elimination of his name from the history of Ireland as one of the main martyrs of the Easter Rising
According to Mitchell in the Preface to he Amazon Journal of Roger Casement, his own attitude towards the Black Diaries has changed over the years: here seemed no need to publish them unless one wished to throw oil on the ire. hey have poisoned the reputation of Casement and muddied the waters of South American history
Summary
I am interested in assessing how authors fabricate a discourse based on alleged facts in order to perpetuate a representation of Casement’s persona both as a hero – up until his arrest on April 21, 1916 – and as an antihero – ater his arrest and and especially ater his Black Diaries were uncovered. he fact that those diaries were revealed even before Casement’s execution, contrary to. According to Mitchell in the Preface to he Amazon Journal of Roger Casement, his own attitude towards the Black Diaries has changed over the years: here seemed no need to publish them unless one wished to throw oil on the ire.
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