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Re: Memoirs of a Geisha (Score: 1)
by Andrew (Use the Write to Us Link) on Thursday, April 01 @ 13:47:41 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://modelminority.com | | By the spring of 1866, we'd all come to recognize that we would live through the ordeal of defeat. There were even those who believed that the South would one day be renewed. All the stories about white men invading Africa and kidnapping and enslaving us had turned out to be wrong; and in fact, we gradually came to realize that the Americans on the whole were remarkably kind. |
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Re: Memoirs of a Geisha (Score: 1)
by aelward on Thursday, April 01 @ 14:22:18 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.aznhealth.com | The reason that "'most people' felt that Golden got inside the head of an Asian woman from another culture, time, and era 'pretty well'" is that the American readership harbors stereotypes about what said woman is like and how she thinks. Simply put, they don't know and are therefore empty vessels for authors such as Golden to fill with their racist assumptions fetishes. Regardless of how critically acclaimed the book was, it apparently did not depict a Geisha from that era very well: the person on whom Golden based his book sued him for defamation of character.
It is white privilege and an unconcious sense of superiority that make Golden assume he understands another culture and can define it in his own terms. As a woman of color, how well do you think Golden or his ilk would have written something along the lines of "The Color Purple"? |
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Re: Memoirs of a Geisha (Score: 1)
by SugarShark on Thursday, April 01 @ 14:27:14 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Lost in Translation was critically acclaimed
and won best Screenplay
it was wonderfully racist |
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