“The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, “is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.” They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him. The most that is spoken about the Indians is when Peter rescues Tiger Lily from the pirates. Piccaninny is an offensive word that generally means “small black children.” They are called redskins, and they belong to the Piccaninny Tribe. This is particularly in regards to how Barrie addresses Native Americans in his book.
Peter and Wendy is just one of many books that holds true to the racist times in which it was written. And The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses the “N” word more than 200 times. There’s The Story of Black Sambo (Sambo was a racist expression back in the day and the book’s illustrations resembled demeaning images black people were trying to distance themselves from, and I’m also pretty sure that my grandmother read me this story once). There’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Oompa Loompas were black pygmies that came from “the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before.”). Now, Peter and Wendy is not the only book that shows its age with sign-of-the-times racism. Just watch the music sequence of “What Makes a Red Man Red.) (Of course, Disney did play up the racism in its own way. There were stories about the Never bird, the regal descriptions of Captain Hook, the real story about how Peter came to Neverland…and the blatant racism that existed in 1911. But like many originals, Barrie’s book has so much more to it. Barrie’s book, Peter and Wendy, which was published in 1911 (following the original play that debuted in 1904). The Disney movie, and many other adaptations, were based on J.M. Then, with a sprinkle of fairy dust, Peter flies the pirate ship back to London and returns Wendy, John, and Michael back to their room. They save Tiger Lily from the pirates, party with the Indians, and battle Captain Hook. He brings them to Neverland where they meet the Lost Boys, pirates and mermaids. When he loses his shadow in the nursery of the Darling home, he meets Wendy, and then her brothers, John, and Michael. The universal story is that Peter Pan is a flying boy who lives with his fairy, Tinker Bell, in Neverland, an island that exists second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning. Thanks to Disney, most people are familiar with the story of Peter Pan.
0 kommentar(er)
