English Lit, Revisited

Dec 23, 2008 14:40

Not really much to report these days. I've been working at a local grocery store part time. In my spare time I've watching Brideshead Revisited with karenjeane. We just finished this massive eleven part, 700 minute miniseries starring a young Jeremy Irons. It was excellent and full of interwar ennui in the upper classes. We plan on spending the whole winter ( Read more... )

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karenjeane December 24 2008, 13:35:39 UTC
Did you read the featured IMDb review for Flame Trees of Thika?

This is the worst kind of colonial narrative. The presumption of competence of Whites and the presumption of incompetence on behalf of the African population. The very concept of a family 'getting on' and 'making a future for themselves in the wilds of Africa' is in itself racist and ignorant.

And on it goes. Any legitimacy? We shall see.

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