Talk:Lord Jim
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I am removing the following statement from the article because it seems highly problematic to me:
"Lord Jim is widely considered a post-colonial novel because it deals with Africa and Asia and looks at them through an acultural point of view."
The problems that I see:
- The novel has extremely little to say about Africa (Madagascar is mentioned peripherally three times, and that is the only mention of Africa that I am aware of).
- The point of view of the novel is far from acultural: it is entirely European.
- The novel is set and written in the colonial period, not the post-colonial period.
- As for the book being "widely considered" to be a post-colonial novel, I can find no reference to such a position on the web, except in mirrors of the Wikipedia text. I would therefore categorize the whole statement as unverifiable, as defined by the Wikipedia policies.
If there's someone who knows something I don't know about this topic, feel free to undo my deletion.67.186.28.212 23:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 2006 Egyption Ferry Disaster
Not sure where it should go but I immediately thought this bore an erie resemblance to the early reports of what happened on the ferry, with the crew getting off the boat while assuring those left that everything is fine. M/V al-Salam Boccaccio 98
[edit] Just right !
Yes, I also cannot see any post-colonial point in the entire book. There is no deal with Africa and Asia either. It's a story of a wounded heart and soul, nothing else.
