Comments on: Colonial Ghosts http://eightyfoureightyfive.com/2009/09/22/colonial-ghosts/ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: brendan http://eightyfoureightyfive.com/2009/09/22/colonial-ghosts/#comment-431 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:23:36 +0000 http://eightyfoureightyfive.com/?p=3892#comment-431 WOW. Impactful work. Stevenson’s critique cuts like a knife for a kid who grew up loving Tintin.

Iain, I couldn’t disagree with you more, I don’t think there’s any book burning going on here, it’s just realizing that there’s often more at work in the shit we read than just simple, innocuous messages.

Doesn’t mean you can never read Tintin again, but holy shit.

]]> By: Iain http://eightyfoureightyfive.com/2009/09/22/colonial-ghosts/#comment-423 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:51:43 +0000 http://eightyfoureightyfive.com/?p=3892#comment-423 as a very avid Tintin fan. I would firstly like to say that Tintin in the Congo is the second in the series the first being Tintin in the land of the soviets. both the first and second adventures are on a very different theme then the third issue (Tintin in America) and beyond. but even then you have to remember that these books come from a different time. there just was not the same liberal outrage with racial stereotypes . you could even look into the racial images that continue in the books i.e the “black lotus” and Asians, indigenous people in the “broken ear” or even Scottish people in “the black island”. They were written in 1929 you cant expect Herge to be racially sensitivity when he was only making a comic for a small white European demographic. so in closing lets stop the book burning and look into Tintin for the good (like classic mens fashion)
http://www.tintinfashion.blogspot.com/

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