http://www.edrants.com/stephen-thompson-racist-reviewer/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/stephen-thompson-racist-reviewer/comment-page-1/#comment-39473 fairest Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:07:36 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=4189#comment-39473 Um, weren't you just the same racist in your Jon Franzen review above? You just phrased it in the form of a question. "Do we need any more white male books like this." ... Um, weren’t you just the same racist in your Jon Franzen review above? You just phrased it in the form of a question. “Do we need any more white male books like this.” …

]]> http://www.edrants.com/stephen-thompson-racist-reviewer/comment-page-1/#comment-38932 Jay Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:47:19 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=4189#comment-38932 It is deeply ignorant of the variety of Indian literature too, especially of authors like Raj Kamal Jha and Siddhartha Deb, original novelists of great insight and talent, far in scope and technique from Rushdie and Mistry. Truly, this was an awful review, telling us more about Thompson's ignorance of the literature of a nation of one billion people, than providing any useful or insightful context for Chandra's work. It is deeply ignorant of the variety of Indian literature too, especially of authors like Raj Kamal Jha and Siddhartha Deb, original novelists of great insight and talent, far in scope and technique from Rushdie and Mistry. Truly, this was an awful review, telling us more about Thompson’s ignorance of the literature of a nation of one billion people, than providing any useful or insightful context for Chandra’s work.

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