From: "John Bale" <eda38-AT-educ.keele.ac.uk> Subject: Re: East is east Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:59:28 +0100 East is East got very good reviews nib the UK including via the liberal press. However, you've expressed my feelings towards it perfectly. John Bale What I found repulsive was the demonizing of the pakistani husband. He was a polygamist-wife-beater-nationalist-patriarchal etc... > I couldn't help think of that spivakism : "white men saving brown women from brown men." The spivakism doesn't directly apply since the producer is Asian (I believe) and the focal point of the film is the young sons but still....it felt as if a kind of "feminism lite" was the cover for the easy stereotyping of the muslim asian. In other words the progressive anti-patriarchalism sereved as a screen for a very non-progressive, simplistic, easily digestible, ugly carricature. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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