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Increased social awareness leads to reconsideration of childhood literary love

Anuradha Lingappa • November 20, 2014

I just saw a determined woman struggling to succeed in a crumbling, backwards society. I didnâ€™t think to question the bookâ€™s glorification of rape and slavery, even though they now seem like such blatant underpinnings of the novel.

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