Classics such as King Solomon’s Mines make the hero out to be a dashing man of science stealing indigenous peoples\u0027 treasures
Quatermain’s first-person narration is funny and gripping, especially coupled with the footnotes from an “Editor” issuing their own corrections and commentary — but it is very hard to ignore the story’s racism, beginning with an extended commentary on racial slurs in the novel’s first chapter. Ngugi wa Thiong’o singles out Haggard for special scorn in Decolonising the Mind as one of the “geniuses of racism,” and the award is not undeserved.
As the adventure genre developed, it grew to incorporate what we now call science fiction — and Indiana Jones’s escapades have plenty of overlap with that genre, too. If these influential texts are haunted today by their unavoidable racism, it’s not as if Indy’s creators — who grew up loving these stories — were wholly unaware of the problems with them.“You and I are very much alike,” taunts his first major doppelgänger, Belloq , in Raiders of the Lost Ark, in a speech that has been plagiarized by movie villains ever since. Even the original ’80s films know, on some level, that Jones is a villain in his story.
Indiana Jones has many children, and the franchise’s influence is so sweeping that even the biggest video game in the world at the moment, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, bears its mark. But, five movies and 42 years in, we might start to wonder if Indiana Jones does belong in a museum.Article content
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