The main plot of Mansfield park is slave owners maximising their extraction of work and wealth from slaves in the Caribbean to maintain a comfortable life and social status in southern England.
Even though the conservatives have no moral values and don’t stand for anything it assumes me how much the financially punish academia and students who choose to study this bullshit.
Key paragraph:
> The English and Literature department at Stirling has not critiqued Austen, and the university has said that its Special Authors module changes focus on an annual basis.
You can “decolonise” a colony, but you can’t really “decolonise” the country that was doing the colonizing, because, well, it was never a colony, except during the Roman Empire. But I enjoyed doing Latin at school so I support continued partial Romanisation, if only because the Latin alphabet is a handy thing and I don’t know any others.
“There is a sex scene with bare breasts and the man is thrusting. It may be brief, but definitely inappropriate Also, graphic pictures of slaves being raped and tortured.”
Watch out guys, some softcore nudity… Oh also there’s slaves being tortured.
I don’t think the book included this though. I think the slavery is just referenced.
Tbh, I suspect the book is just an accurate, though dramatised depiction of how people of a certain class thought in the 19th century. Fair enough to swap it out for something else in a given year. But I don’t think this needs to be seen as ‘pro colonization’, as the university implied.
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On the one hand I don’t support being woke like this. On the other Jane Austen is so boring. I guess I’m neutral…
This course changes the author every year, it’s nothing to do with decolonising the curriculum, which is of course a perfectly legitimate thing to try and do. This is just culture war nonsense to get people riled up. Is the Telegraph’s position that we should exclusively study Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Austen forever?
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The main plot of Mansfield park is slave owners maximising their extraction of work and wealth from slaves in the Caribbean to maintain a comfortable life and social status in southern England.
The word ‘ slave ‘ never appears in the novel.
I would have loved to have read Chinua Achebe’s – Things Fall Apart in school through the eyes of more modern topics. A debate about the toxic [masculinity of yam farming.](https://www.pngkit.com/png/detail/420-4207861_okonkwo-had-two-barns-full-of-yams-while.png) Wild read.
Even though the conservatives have no moral values and don’t stand for anything it assumes me how much the financially punish academia and students who choose to study this bullshit.
Key paragraph:
> The English and Literature department at Stirling has not critiqued Austen, and the university has said that its Special Authors module changes focus on an annual basis.
You can “decolonise” a colony, but you can’t really “decolonise” the country that was doing the colonizing, because, well, it was never a colony, except during the Roman Empire. But I enjoyed doing Latin at school so I support continued partial Romanisation, if only because the Latin alphabet is a handy thing and I don’t know any others.
Lol. I was just googling this book as I’ve never read it. Saw someone wrote this on https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mansfield-park/user-reviews/adult
“There is a sex scene with bare breasts and the man is thrusting. It may be brief, but definitely inappropriate Also, graphic pictures of slaves being raped and tortured.”
Watch out guys, some softcore nudity… Oh also there’s slaves being tortured.
I don’t think the book included this though. I think the slavery is just referenced.
Tbh, I suspect the book is just an accurate, though dramatised depiction of how people of a certain class thought in the 19th century. Fair enough to swap it out for something else in a given year. But I don’t think this needs to be seen as ‘pro colonization’, as the university implied.
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On the one hand I don’t support being woke like this. On the other Jane Austen is so boring. I guess I’m neutral…
This course changes the author every year, it’s nothing to do with decolonising the curriculum, which is of course a perfectly legitimate thing to try and do. This is just culture war nonsense to get people riled up. Is the Telegraph’s position that we should exclusively study Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Austen forever?