![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These assessments have led over the long term to Mittelholzer’s marginalization within academic. McDougall’s statement based on the assessments of past scholars is typical: ‘Mittelholzer is known to have suffered a sense of “genetic injury,” as Gilkes phrases the problem, because of his “Negro blood”, which in Mittelholzer’s own (unfortunately fascist and racist) view, contaminated his European inheritance.’ (1992: 79). These views initially and respectively highlighted by scholars 2 like Geoffrey Wagner (1961) and Joyce Sparer (1968), were said to reflect the views of the author have been repeated ad infinitum based largely on received wisdom, a surface analysis of the text and Mittelholzer’s interest in German philosophers like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. While Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) has been recognized as a pioneer of Caribbean literature, his work has typically been viewed as marred by the presence of sexual sensationalism, racist and fascist ideologies. ![]()
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