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A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/a-librarys-approach-to-books-that-offend/ : The cartoonist Hergé is popular again, as is his adventurous reporter Tintin, who will be featured in a Steven Spielberg movie due out in 2011.
But if you go to the Brooklyn Public Library seeking a copy of “Tintin au Congo,” Hergé’s second book in a series, prepare to make an appointment and wait days to see the book.
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Annals of Damage Control: Tintin Edition - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/annals-of-damage-control-tintin-edition/ : Complaints about “Tintin in the Congo,” a comic book originally published in 1931, gathered momentum recently when David Enright, a lawyer in London, happened to pick up a copy as he strolled through a Borders store there.
What he saw in the book — suggestions “that Africans are subhumans, they are imbeciles, that they’re half-savage” — is not in |
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bid to ban 'racist' Tintin book
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294670.stm : A racism watchdog calls for a Tintin adventure to be removed from the shelves of a leading bookshop. |
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Book chain moves 'racist' Tintin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6902195.stm : A US book chain removes a Tintin adventure story from the children's section over concerns about its "racist" content. |
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Ban 'racist' Tintin book, says CRE | Uk News | News | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/12/ntintin112.xml : Get the latest UK news and World news from the Telegraph. Your source for sport news, business news, travel news, motoring news and property news |
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Ban Tintin? It's not a black and white matter | St Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/15/do1504.xml : 'Pneumothorax!" as Captain Haddock might observe. Tintin, the ginger-quiffed boy detective, who, together with his faithful dog Snowy, has been confounding the forces of evil since 1929, stands accused of being one of the forces of evil himself.
According to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), his adventures in the Congo reveal our hero |
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Coco and his white mister
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070714/asp/opinion/story_8055648.asp : There are two kinds of post-colonials — the guilty and the giggling. In the apportioning of modern justice, the ex-colonizers get the guilt, and the ex-colonized often manage to wrest for themselves the right to find it all terribly funny. Political correctness is largely the creation of the former. It is a kind of ‘white noise’ that seldom escapes |
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Congolese student begins legal action against 'Tintin In The Congo' over racist content | the Dail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=474559&in_page_id=1811 : A Congolese student has started legal action against the publisher of the comic book Tintin claiming it is racist and should be removed from bookshops |
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IOL: Let's talk about Tintin - Zapiro
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20070729224852550C710570 : The Afrikaans publisher of the popular Tintin series, Human and Rosseau, decided not to release an Afrikaans version of the book because it depicted "indigenous African people in an unflattering stereotypical fashion", said company spokesperson Carina Diedericks-Hugo. |
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Librarians to review race row Tintin book
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Librarians-to-review-race-row-Tintin-book-newsinkent4354.aspx : The adventures of Tintin and his pet dog Snowy have been enjoyed by generations of young people across Europe for more than 70 years.
A series of comic books written and drawn by the Belgian Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, documented the pair's battles against villains in exotic locations including America, Tibet and even The Moon.
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Racist fears remove Tintin comic | Herald Sun
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22096443-2902,00.html : THE classic comic book Tintin in the Congo has been removed from the children's section of a major Australian book chain because of fears it may be "offensive".
Borders is taking similar action to stores in the US and UK, after complaints there the book was racist.
"We are committed to acting responsibly as a retailer and with sensitivit |
| Mots clés : Racist fears remove Tintin comic, Entertainment, Herald Sun
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The Commission for Racial Idiocy | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/13/do1305.xml : The book, it's true, features fairly grotesque drawings that look more like tall monkeys than human beings from the Congo. The harsh reality is that in 1931, when the book was first published, that is how black Africans were commonly viewed by your average European.
Even those less interested in the boy reporter's adventures and more intereste |
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The world of Tintin may be gone, but that's why we like it - Opinion
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-world-of-tintin-may-be-gone-but-thats-why-we-like-it/2007/07/19/1184559954733.html : THE adventures of Tintin, the globetrotting boy reporter with the ludicrously improbable hairdo and preposterously Edwardian attire, has always been something of a guilty pleasure for those of liberal inclinations.
Tintin's comic-book career stretched from the gloomy 1930s, when the Western democracies so often seemed in danger of being eclipse |
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Tintin - a problematic figure | Uk News | News | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/12/ntintin212.xml : Georges Remi, better known by his pen name Hergé, used to boast that the adventures of Tintin were enjoyed by boys aged from seven to 77, and today the appeal of the Belgian boy reporter's adventures and the artist's beautiful ligne claire illustrations is stronger than ever.
But Hergé has always been a problematic figure, who stands accused o |
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Tintin book faces racism challenge in Belgium
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/08/content_6493881.htm : BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A Congolese student has launched a court case in Belgium to have the comic book "Tintin in the Congo" declared racist and withdrawn from sale, according to media reports Wednesday.
"Tintin in the Congo," which first appeared in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as a comic strip in 1930-1931, is part of |
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Tintin out of kids' section in UK stores
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Tintin_out_of_kids_section_in_UK_stores/articleshow/2212521.cms : NEW YORK: Tintin in the Congo, an illustrated work was removed from the children's section of Borders Group stores in Britain because of allegations of racism, and will receive similar treatment by the superstore chain in the United States.
"Borders is committed to carrying a wide range of materials and supporting our customers’ right to choo |
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Tintin's Stepmother Agrees to Ban Album from Children’s Bookshelves | The Brussels Journal
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2250 : The Hergé Foundation agrees with yesterday’s decision of the international bookseller Borders Books to ban the comic album “Tintin in the Congo” from its children’s section and move it to the adult section of its stores.
The Hergé Foundation manages the estate of the late Brussels writer and illustrator Hergé [Georges Remi, 1907-1983]. The Found |
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Tintin's racist adventure kept out of little arms' reach - World - smh.com.au
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/tintins-racist-adventure-kept-out-of-little-arms-reach/2007/07/13/1183833774310.html : LONDON: The bookshop chain Borders is removing the comic bookTintin in the Congo from the children's section of its Britishstores, because a customer complained it was racist. - |
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