Tarzan Of The Apes
(Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Edgur Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan is a colossal day-dream. He became one of the 20th century's most popular authors in conjunction with Tarzan one of the world's best known characters. There are about twenty-six books that spawned over forty Tarzan movies, hundreds of comic books, radio shows, television programmes and many. Burroughs first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, with its African setting addresses itself to a dominantly masculinity culture which takes up to the issue of European colonialism. Burroughs probably introduces "raw-flesh" in order to justify that Tarzan who descends from an ancient "race of man-eaters" will not cook like the blacks. This savage "Tarzan of the Apes" grasps his 'food in his strong brown hands, tearing it with his molars like a wild beast" where as Monsieur Tarzan uses a 'knife and fork' to eat cooked food as 'No civilised men eat raw flesh'. Though the blacks cook their meat, they are still less civilsed than Tarzan. Tarzan will not 'ruin good meat (by cooking it like blacks) in any such foolish manner' and he 'craves' and 'needs' meat because he descends from an ancient 'race of man-eaters.' Tarzan is consequently a white adult fantasy replete with degenerative human behaviours under the disguise of popular entertainment. The Tarzan nightmare, declares Mwamba, will keep recurring as long as 'racism, sexism, military adventurism and greedy individualism' thrive! Thus natives are primitive who did not know how to use natural environment sround them. The native is always inferior inspite of creating an alien language and an alien god. They were dominated as they were thought to that other religions were opposed. Hence they remained inferior forever as they dominated by ruling class.
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