Comment Re:Christian propaganda or support for colonialism (Score 1) 619
I'm far less nervous about what choices will be made with the x-tian themes than I am about the straight-up colonialist assumptions in the books.
There is a constant repetition of the "Free White North - Narnia in the North" and endless representations of the "southerners" as evil and dark-skinned (and therefore evil). They are characterised as Muslims but presented as workshipers of a violent god who demands bloodshed (Tash). There's a whole whack of damaging orientalism(s) constructed around the non-whites in the books (vioent, uncaring of human life, savage, full of intrigue) - and no matter how carefully handled in these movies - its bound to raise some tensions.
I guess I wonder whether the director will pander to the x-tian right sense of superiority or make some effort to negativise the more rascist aspects of the series.
There is a constant repetition of the "Free White North - Narnia in the North" and endless representations of the "southerners" as evil and dark-skinned (and therefore evil). They are characterised as Muslims but presented as workshipers of a violent god who demands bloodshed (Tash). There's a whole whack of damaging orientalism(s) constructed around the non-whites in the books (vioent, uncaring of human life, savage, full of intrigue) - and no matter how carefully handled in these movies - its bound to raise some tensions.
I guess I wonder whether the director will pander to the x-tian right sense of superiority or make some effort to negativise the more rascist aspects of the series.
