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gracynzc 's review for:
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
I definitely understand why this book is a classic. Verne masterfully weaves suspense and practicality throughout the entire novel, while still making the characters and the story likable and dynamic.
However, this is the kind of novel that plays into some of the problematic troupes of normalizing colonialism and the homogenization of non-European/English cultures. Reading this book on the surface, one only sees the fantastic world created by Verne. But upon looking a bit closer, the layers of systematic exoticism of cultures that don’t fit the straight white european male framework is something that is not only sustained in this novel, but praised.
This story and the way in which it is told has with held the test of time, but some of the underlying ideologies should not.
However, this is the kind of novel that plays into some of the problematic troupes of normalizing colonialism and the homogenization of non-European/English cultures. Reading this book on the surface, one only sees the fantastic world created by Verne. But upon looking a bit closer, the layers of systematic exoticism of cultures that don’t fit the straight white european male framework is something that is not only sustained in this novel, but praised.
This story and the way in which it is told has with held the test of time, but some of the underlying ideologies should not.