{"id":180,"date":"2009-02-18T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2009\/02\/18\/les-aventures-de-tintin-au-pays-des-soviets-aqr\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:47:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:47:01","slug":"les-aventures-de-tintin-au-pays-des-soviets-aqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2009\/02\/18\/les-aventures-de-tintin-au-pays-des-soviets-aqr\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Aventures De Tintin Au Pays Des Soviets – AQR"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<\/strong> \"Amused\" Mood:<\/strong> Amused ]<\/strong>
[<\/strong> Currently:<\/strong> Enjoying Naptime! ]<\/strong>
While on my mat leave, I have been taking the time to go through my favourite books from childhood. This means that I am rereading the Anne of Green Gables and Trixie Belden series.<\/p>\n

As part of this, I have turned to the French bande dessiners that my immersion teachers used to help teach me. Tintin was one of these. So it was with joy that I picked up the first of his adventures, in the original French, to read.<\/p>\n

This black and white reproduction of the original strip is facisnating in its focus. Clearly grounded in the time it was written, this is nothing more than a piece of anti-soviet propoganda aimed at children. Full of violence and ethnic stereotypes, this is a cartoon in the every sense of the word. The ethnic stereotypes move beyond the soviets, with Germans and Chinese also finding themselves targets. As I read it, I found myself thinking, if the censors have trouble with Tintin au Congo, then they will have problems with this too. This book is for the Tintin completist only.<\/p>\n

Still, I enjoyed teh trip back in time and will continue my reading, although I may bring my Larousse along to look up the more obscure vocabulary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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