Gulliver as Slave Trader: Racism Reviled by Jonathan SwiftMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 25 de jul. 2006 - 252 pàgines The pointed social commentaries of master satirist Jonathan Swift are heavy with irony, but Swift rarely left any doubt about his true meaning. In the case of Gulliver's Travels, however, Swift's meaning has been the subject of debate among scholars for almost 300 years. Here, Elaine Robinson offers a new and fascinating interpretation for this literary classic. Pointing out clues throughout Gulliver, Robinson demonstrates Swift's uses of Everyman, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Boccaccio, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton to define real Christianity as a basis for protesting the African slave trade and racism. In doing so, she illuminates Swift's insight, honesty, piercing irony, and brilliant wit, and calls attention to the disturbing relevance of Gulliver's Travels in the 21st century. |
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... difference , " in that racist distortions cannot , in truth , be considered " evi- dence , " which is the thrust of his attack on white supremacy in this regard , and his strategic use of Bernard . Brown is very much mistaken in imply ...
... difference in their similar dark night of the soul . Dante says : Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood , for the straight way was lost . Ah , how hard it is to tell what that wood was , wild , rugged , harsh ...
... difference , that we wound them so much the more grievously , by how much a spiritual Creature is more excellent , and more hardly cured . Nor do we this out of hatred or ill - will , but out of a stupid internal insensibility . For the ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
The African Slave Trade 2525 | 67 |
Flagitious and Facinorous Acts | 92 |
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