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scarfmanI wish the Dolittle franchise inspired pastiches the way Sherlock Holmes does. I gather though that the books have been out of print pretty much since I was a kid because of the ambient racism level due to their dating from about a century ago.
Yeah, yeah, the African prince Bumpo aspires to be a white man because he wants to wake Sleeping Beauty. The recent edition I read a few years ago was edited so that Bumpo thought he'd win Sleeping Beauty if Dr Dolittle changed him into a lion. But Bumpo's plan fails either way. However, he then becomes a valued member of the Doctor's household. Is that really any more racist than Huckleberry Finn? Notwithstanding the fuss kicked up over Huckleberry Finn every decade or so.
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Date: 2011-11-07 04:35 am (UTC)http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1154
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Date: 2011-11-07 12:14 pm (UTC)Woah thanks, I hadn't even thought to look. I thought the family was sitting on the works the way Doyle's family does.
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Date: 2011-11-08 03:00 am (UTC)http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Doyle%2C%20Arthur%20Conan%2C%20Sir%2C%201859-1930
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Date: 2011-11-08 12:55 pm (UTC)Yeah, the Doyle whose family, reportedly, kept there from being a sequel to Elementary, My Dear Data for four years.
Thanks for that link too!
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Date: 2011-11-07 01:22 pm (UTC)Isn't this really more of a job for Doctor Moreau?
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Date: 2011-11-07 04:40 pm (UTC)Of course, Huckleberry Finn was about racism. My feelings about that controversy are perfectly articulated in this video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dianidevine/replacing-the-n-word-with-robot-in-huck-finn
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Date: 2011-11-08 01:10 am (UTC)Of course, Huckleberry Finn was about racism.
You know, that's exactly the difference I wasn't seeing.