October 3, 2008
Should We Take Tarzan Seriously?
(After all, Edgar Rice Burroughs didn't)
Cultural historians adore Tarzan. He emerged in 1912 as if called to battle against the New Woman, the New Negro, the new fascination with homosexuality, and all those new immigrants, and to provide a breath of fresh jungle air for a society industrializing and urbanizing at an astonishing rate. In his virile primitivism he became our answer to Prufrock, T.S. Eliot's vision of the paralyzed, self-conscious psyche of the modern civilized
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