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- The author's 1895 poem was painted on a wall of Manchester University's newly renovated union building. But student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by Maya Angelou in a bid to reverse "black and brown voices" being written out of history. The union has apologised for failing to consult students on its choice of poem.
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Apr 14, 2016 · Escaping Rudyard Kipling’s Legacy. The British author famous for The Jungle Book (1894), has been the subject of scholarly debate about his pro-imperialist ideas and themes interlaced in his...
- Dahl’s Anti-Semiticism and Controversial Legacy
- Which of Dahl’s Books Have Been Rewritten?
- Are There Plans to Rewrite Translations of Dahl’s Works?
- Why Are Some Claiming The Dahl Rewrites Are Censorship?
- What Other Authors Have Seen Their Works Rewritten?
Dahl, who died at age 74, had a history of making anti-Semitic comments and including racist tropes and language in his works. For example, he originally wrote characters like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Oompa Loompas as an African Pygmy tribe. In James and the Giant Peach, the Grasshopper declares at one point: “I’d rather be fried alive a...
According to The Independent, hundreds of changes have been made to Dahl’s body of work. These edits include the Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach becoming Cloud-People, while in The Witches, the use of “old hags” has been replaced with “old crows.” In Matilda, a mention of the English novelist Rudyard Kipling has also been replaced with Jane ...
So far, only changes to the English-language versions of Dahl’s works have been announced. On Tuesday, the French publishers of Dahl’s books ruled out any changes, The Guardian reported. “This rewrite only concerns Britain,” a spokesperson for the French publishers Gallimard said. “We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no ...
Among the critics of the rewrites are Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses. On Feb. 18, Rushie tweeted,“Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Da...
In March 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six Dr. Seuss books such as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoowould no longer be published as they contained racist and insensitive imagery. The organization told the Associated Pressin a statement that the books portray people in “hurtful and wrong” ways and the ce...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( / ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology ( The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
Jul 28, 2018 · There's a similar controversy in England right now over one of the country's most celebrated authors, Rudyard Kipling. Recently, some students at the University of Manchester in England...
Jul 19, 2018 · His works have long been criticised for their colonialist sympathies, with George Orwell writing in 1942 that Kipling was a “jingo imperialist” and “morally insensitive and aesthetically...
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January 1919 Issue. It looks Chestertonian as I write it. As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be...
Dec 28, 2007 · Culture. Who Was Kipling? A sampling of writing from The Atlantic 's past offers a range of views on the many contradictions of Rudyard Kipling. By David Barber. December 2007 Issue....
