Thank you, that’s a great piece of writing! And reporting.
Reminds me of Edward Said’s disdain for nostalgic readings of Jane Austen, whose novels ignore the racist colonialism hat undergirds the characters’ cozy lives.
I haven’t read Out of Africa, but I always thought of the movie as Eurocentric, profit-seeking trash. This movie seemed to serve fairly well as a corrective (even if that’s not the maker’s point):
And yeah, the Karen connection is all too apt. I flashed repeatedly to the wealthy couple in St. Louis who brandished guns at the sight of BLM protesters marching by on “their” “private street.”
Reading Austen-adjacent Jane Eyre and the racist colonialism there isn’t ignored. It is agreed with. Mixed-race (or not depending on your reading of creole) people from the colonies are insane monsters.
I figured you might know this guy!
looks too much like a carp or tarpon with those scales and that turns me off of wanting to try to eat one. that and the fact that I detest freshwater fish (tastes like dirty water to me)
Okay thanks, I’ll be sure to come up with a more precise word next time I mention that about her novels. Anyway, it’s been a long time since I read Said on that, and I have little doubt that he too overlooked her direct mention of it in that one novel.
I think that every Brazilian knows this gigantic fish, at least we have already seen it on TV. The Amazon rainforest and the animals and plants that live there are very exotic and mysterious to the rest of the country.
I never ate it, but I know it is popular in the Amazon Basin. Amazon cuisine isn’t popular here in the south east, but I believe if producers invest in good marketing campaigns and in an efficient logistics chain, this fish will become more common on the country’s tables, as happened with tilapia.
But I think you’re right. Most freshwater fish have a slight taste of mud …
Although I really liked the Filhote and the Pintado, ugly but delicious fishes that I ate a long time ago in a now closed restaurant.
