Rewriting Uncle Tom

Rewriting Uncle Tom

George Rediscovering Woodcock, in The American Scholar
The Noble Savase (Summer 1976), 1811 Q st., N.w., Wash-
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ington, D.C. 20009.
Although many scholars have studied vanishing primitive cultures, few
have asked why civilized man is so fascinated nowadays what Euro-
peans used to call "savage cultures." Woodcock, editor of Canadian
Literature, writes that Portuguese voyages to Africa and the discovery
of America first brought Europeans into contact with primitive peo-
ples....

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