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P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ Books Changed for ‘Unacceptable Prose’

2 点作者 Khaine大约 2 年前

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eesmith大约 2 年前
It took a bit of hunting, but I found an example of one of the changes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;travel&#x2F;news&#x2F;jeeves-and-wooster-stories-censored-to-avoid-offending-modern-readers&#x2F;ar-AA19TIam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;travel&#x2F;news&#x2F;jeeves-and-wooster-sto...</a> mentions: &quot;In the 1934 novel Right Ho, Jeeves, newly reissued by Penguin, a racial term used to describe a “minstrel of the old school” has been removed.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jeeves&#x2F;page&#x2F;n177&#x2F;mode&#x2F;2up?q=minstrel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jeeves&#x2F;pa...</a> shows it&#x27;s the n-word - something that even 90 years ago was seen as a &quot;racially loaded ethnic slur or insult&quot; in the US, quoting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;And_Then_There_Were_None" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;And_Then_There_Were_None</a> .<p>From a financial perspective, it seems likely that changing that word will help long-term sales. I suspect new readers&#x2F;buyers of a comedy series don&#x27;t want to suspend their disbelief that much. It&#x27;s not like they have the historical and literary impact as &quot;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&quot; - another story with a contentious use of the n-word.<p>FWIW, expurgated versions of Huckleberry Finn have been around for years.
ggm大约 2 年前
I&#x27;d personally rather we put content warnings on books than we did this. But most of all I&#x27;d rather we just accepted the past is another country.<p>Maybe footnotes or side notes? That would be in the spirit of contextualising panels beside historical works which need some &#x27;yea but&#x27; added.
ofalkaed大约 2 年前
Next month, special restored editions and the cash rolls in.