How long until classical literature like absalom absalom gets rewritten because of this?
>>24828756I don't see classics getting rewritten. The James Bond novels were written because they're tied to a massive IP, not because they were read with any frequency. I think we're safe until the William Faulkner multi-verse hits theatres.
>>24828756the kind of progressive wokescoldy attitudes that would deign to rewrite classics is already out of fashion. we're onto critical pedagogy that has no issue confronting the context of reconstruction
>>24828756Thursday
i'm waiting for the opposite phenomenon, in which we rewrite eg to kill a mockingbird so that atticus finch bravely leads the lynching of an obviously guilty nigger that the liberal courts have set free
>>24828756>wild niggersimagine my surprise
Reminder to always get the oldest possible editions to avoid program taint.
>>24828756It’s not important enough to warrant being rewritten.
>>24829135he said "taint" lmao
They only rewrite shit that's marketed to kids. Taking "nigger" out of Huck Finn is intended to protect children from identifying with a character who uses the word freely. Absalom Absalom is never going to be assigned to ten year olds for a book report.
>>24828756They have already been doing this. They did it a few years ago with some Wodehouse and Dahl books.
>>24828756Its kind of weird how classical/older literature is more controversial than modern literature being written. That doesnt make sense. There is nothing more controversial being written today than De Sades smut and late 19th century racial theory
>>24830999cant be shameless when hidden behind 7 layers of irony
