--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote: If you
> apply a stringent revisionism, you would have
to
> condemn a lot of old
> literature and art.
***************************************************** I think
a lot of "great literature" from the United States in any
case, is condemned or at least assigned warning label at this
juncture. Antisemitism and racist stereotypes abound in
Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Henry Miller (who was, himself,
Jewish). Writers from this era seem to take it as a given
that certian people by dint of what they are, not who they
are, are naturally inferior. Mark Twain, who is often singled
out as racist, is, as I read it, misunderstood. His racism is
always ironic and more critical of the character making the
comment than the one commented on. His novel, PUDD'NHEAD
WILSON, states as clearly as we could wish how absurd he
thought segregation was in 1894. Twain was also a champion of
the openly gay Walt Whitman.
Patrick King
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