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Re: Pale Fire & homophobia (fwd)
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Christopher Berg wrote:
> This, in fact, seems to be what some list members are doing to me! (Joke.) To
> rephrase, once again, my question: if Nabokov had constructed a fiction that
> featured a character of African or Jewish extraction doing the things Kinbote
> does in relation to Shade (I leave out of this equation sexual orientation),
> might we not consider such fiction an example of dubious ethical merit?
Alas, nothing better than "Othello" comes to mind when I think of a
piece of fiction where the only black-skinned character is also the
murderer. Of course, a play of such dubious ethical merit could not serve
as an appropriate example.
--
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton
> This, in fact, seems to be what some list members are doing to me! (Joke.) To
> rephrase, once again, my question: if Nabokov had constructed a fiction that
> featured a character of African or Jewish extraction doing the things Kinbote
> does in relation to Shade (I leave out of this equation sexual orientation),
> might we not consider such fiction an example of dubious ethical merit?
Alas, nothing better than "Othello" comes to mind when I think of a
piece of fiction where the only black-skinned character is also the
murderer. Of course, a play of such dubious ethical merit could not serve
as an appropriate example.
--
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton