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arturotuono 's review for:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
As a wee lad, I had read all the Oz books, save for the first and the last. It is a marvelous world indeed fraught with peril and a surprising amount of violence (I recall at least one beheading and the story of the Tin Man's origin story is pure body horror mixed with pathos). It is not so much a children's tale now as it is a children's tale that functions as point of departure for an anthropological meditation on how notions of what is appropriate for children and how we conceive of children has changed.
Also, I do wish that one pervasive and pernicious political reading of the book would go away or at least be discussed as a case study of how certain allegorical interpretations can have long afterlives, in spite of solid historical merits.
Also, I do wish that one pervasive and pernicious political reading of the book would go away or at least be discussed as a case study of how certain allegorical interpretations can have long afterlives, in spite of solid historical merits.