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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