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28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“Well, the “but” is that it’s romanticizing that, as typical of films about slavery — and I think Django could be criticized for this, too — only one heroic enslaved person is given agency when everybody else sort of falls away.”
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- 28 Aug 2019
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…There’s a “but” in your voice. What’s the “but”? Well, the “but” is that it’s romanticizing that, as typical of films about slavery — and I think Django could be criticized for this, too — only one heroic enslaved person is given agency when everybody else sort of falls away. Cinqué becomes the spokesman for everybody because he’s descended from kings. Herman Melville’s short story “Benito Cereno.”…
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