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[patreon early access] the problem with white saviors
🕑 Added 2024-04-02 20:00:05 +0000 UTCYou will never look at Tarzan the same.
Sources & Links:
π "Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.6.1.0004
π "The Imperial Superhero" https://www.jstor.org/stable/43284493
π ""Heart of Darkness, Tarzan", and the "Third World": Canons and Encounters in World Literature, English 109" https://www.jstor.org/stable/25111993
π "CHAPTER 2 βHoist the Colours!β Framing Feminism through Charismatic White Leadership in the Fantasy Blockbuster" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt3hk.7
π "Romancing the Zulu: H. Rider Haggard, "Nada the Lily", and Salvage Ethnography" https://www.jstor.org/stable/23267874
π "Aboriginality in Science Fiction" https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241374
π "From Menace to Messiah: the Prehistory of the Superman in Science Fiction Literature" https://www.jstor.org/stable/41389055
πhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism
πhttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/taliaferro-tarzan.html
πhttps://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism
πhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/King_Solomon%27s_Mines_comic_cover.jpg
π https://books.google.com/books?id=ud3h0TkX3P8C&pg=PA11&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
π https://grrm.livejournal.com/326474.html?thread=17886026#t17886026
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Comments
Lin Kibblemom
Thank you for taking my mind of politics, current affairs, and the State of the World! As a geeky girl I grew up reading Tarzan and the Barsoom novels, wishing for more adventure in my life. Now I live in Interesting Times - jokes on me!
Uriah Kabemba
Yes!!! Been waiting for her to talk about Dune
Emily Kugler
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L B
This is a great topic to cover. I'm looking forward to watching this, especially because you use really great research for your viewers. Thank you π
Sarah Sward
Thank you (as always) for such a thoughtful and well-researched essay. I have been struggling to put to words why Dune didnβt feel like it really got it, despite the intent I could see and read about from the creators. In fact, I just had an argument with brother on Sunday about the changes to Chani. How I thought they were much needed but he didnβt because heβs a βbook puristβ. I also really appreciate you bringing up Tarzan and John Carter and Kings Solomonβs Mines. I was raised on those stories and even though I know now how deeply racist and problematic they are, I also know because they were ingrained into my childhood so deeply I will probably always have work to do to deconstruct their impact on me. As a (very) early career writer, it is essays and perspectives like this I need to make me stop and think and interrogate my own reasons behind characters and choices. So! All that to say, I truly appreciate the work you are doing and I hope to be able to continue to support it for a long time!
