But Netflix’s splashy adaptation invites renewed scrutiny upon some of
the text’s central intentions and assumptions — and offers a few
contemporary tangles of its own. While Balram claims to be motivated by
“freedom,” what sort of existential and ideological bite will such a
worn tooth bear in this text? Balram seems at once decidedly Fanonian —
he explicitly frames his murder as a reclamation of his humanity — but
also disappointingly defanged. What committed freedom fighter is content
merely to manage a taxicab service in the global tech capital of
Bangalore? And what impassioned revolutionary, upon killing his master,
merely adopts his name in turn, replicating the same power structure
that has, until now, contained him? Meet the new boss.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/despite-all-my-rage-neocolonial-cage-in-the-white-tiger/
I had a similar take: https://louisproyect.org/2021/01/20/white-tiger/
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