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...Finding a director was that simple. Making the movie was harder--not just re-creating Reconstruction-era Cincinnati in today's Philadelphia and Delaware but also finding the crucially right actors for four shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years...
...this doesn't happen, however, and the zealots return, get ready for some fun. Like, say, if a prayer-in-school statute gets passed. I know that all those folks have in mind the nice Protestant Anglo-Saxon form of praying. They're going to get a kick out of my kid when she comes into second grade and demands to perform a ritualistic dance to Martoza, the voodoo spirit of fertility. I'll be honest, it gets a little messy, particularly once the open flames and the chickens get thrown into the mix. But hey, the right to pray...
...should distinguish here between religious and cultural traditions. The latter are much more easily syncretized, with much less chance of causing insult or offense. South Asian culture is, in fact, an amalgam of all sorts of different constituent traditions. And Anglo-American culture has successfully managed to incorporate elements of South Asian culture in the past. The Beatles, for example, were influenced heavily by the music of the great sitar player, Ravi Shankar. We all know about the therapeutic powers of yoga--and, for better or worse, the teachings of Deepak Chopra. No Doubt's Gwen Stefani is oft-seen...
...teacher of internal medicine could not see inside the person closest to him. The fact that it will speak to anyone who has looked with his heart instead of his eyes (just as Gunesekera's novel will appeal to anyone separated from a home he loves) reminds us that "Anglo-Indian" writing has value only if it helps us look past all such categories...
...surrounding the explosion of writing in English from the Indian subcontinent--the million-dollar advances won by Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, the 36 languages into which Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things has been translated--it's easy to feel that the all-purpose label of "Anglo-Indian" writing covers a multitude of sins and that too many serious craftsmen are being massed under the Orientalist tent. Abraham Verghese's vision, full of the earnest self-inquiry of a foreigner taking America to his heart, might seem as alien to Romesh Gunesekera as Gunesekera's wrenching, elegiac...