Hi, Rob, I agree that you don't want to beat a theme to
death, but in the 40's, I don't think racism was on these
novelists minds as a theme. I could be wrong. Is Filipino
houseboy a racial slur? It sounds like plain fact to me. I
need to spend way more time looking back to really continue
this discussion with any intelligence, so I'm going to have
to let it go. I just remember being upset with MF (oops,
Maltese Falcon) when I used it in class about 15 years ago.
Thanks for remarking on Marisol in MP as the subtle use of
theme, but I was just using memories of a young girl I had
worked with when I had a secretary job. Maybe the theme was
in my subconscious, so I'll take credit! I didn't realize
until later, when interviewed, that most Miami novelists were
using Cubans and other immigrants as the villians.
Vicki
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