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Bibliophilic Monologues

The Village in the Jungle

The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf Maybe I'm reading it differently but he represents the "people" as less than people. Dehumanizes them in the grossest of manners. This may either be intentional or this may just be the way he saw the natives but either way, I hated it. Understand I read this in the context of anti-colonial discourse so... while it does give a clear indication of the way the "system" ran at the time - the power connections, I couldn't get over the fact that the people were shown as such depraved semi-humans.