Hi. How are you? Welcome back to one more day from the Canary Islands to the world with a new episode of this podcast about human rights or other curiosities. A pleasure to be here.
Before the pandemic, literary works, in the United States, began to be scrutinised, the reason for its removal was this work offers an idealised vision of slavery and perpetuates racist stereotypes. But of course, we must take into account the historical context in which it was made, recounting events that occurred in 1861: while Scarlett O'Hara is the personification of a vision of values and a way of life that long after the war continued to represent half of the country's population, Mammi represents the oppressed population, played by an artist of humble origins, a tireless artist who fought for every contract she achieved in the entertainment world and responded to criticism with a phrase that has remained to perpetuate perpetuity: "I'd rather earn seven hundred dollars a week to play a maid than seven dollars to be one of them."
The film was made at a time when the "Jim Crow Law" was in force, which meant racial segregation. I basically do not agree at all with the cancel culture. Quite the opposite. If I'm learning anything from English literature, it's to put historical context before literary criticism, but in this podcast, cultural cancellation has no place. The importance of the historical context of the novels. I do not think that they should be censored, but rather add a criticism that explains what was happening in that antebellum era in the United States. Pedagogy against racism is urgent.
And with this I conclude today's episode; see you in the next one!
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