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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The answer is in the spoiler.
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Thanks.
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Originally Posted by gmw
Yes, I think this is true. This is similar to the discussion of The Three Musketeers. What the story has become in the public eye is not quite the same as where it started, and pretty much no one can come to either story without having heard something of them.
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True. But
The Three Musketeers was a much greater disconnect between the reality of the original characters and their popular image; with
Tarzan, I didn't feel that the basic character had morphed into something vastly different over the years.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This is the second book New Leaf has chosen that has too much racism. Can we please not nominate books with racism in them?
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Let's talk about the racism. Is the concern the depiction of the indigenous people, or the depiction of Esmeralda? About the former, I don't know what I think. About the latter, heck, she was funny, and I don't recall that the humor was intrinsically racist.
Or is it overall backdrop of white imperialism/white supremacy against which the story is told? But that's a reflection of the times.
I might not be sensitive enough to racism, but I am generally sensitive to misogyny, and I didn't have a major problem with the depiction of women, either, considering that the novel is more than a hundred years old.