The Mummy! A Tale of The 22nd Century, How race and 'the other' is represented in the text 🖊
De-racialised/ loses culture/ethnicity 👤
Different ⚠
The other
The mutant/monster
3000 years older
Factual inaccuracies 🚫
Wouldn't be able to bring a mummy back to life, more of a fantasy
Brains removed for example...
Not christian
"Crimes" not sins
In London
speaks perfect english
No accent
Even Dr Entwerfen has an accent
Takes hot air balloon back to london
When he returns to his mummy-state, he is back in egypt
De-mummified
Wears british clothes
Aristocracy
Dresses up as minstrel at one point
Different culture
Not european
Ancient/wise
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Colonialist
Savage
Scary/violent
Wise/ancient
British entitlement to culture
Saw egyptians as caucasian
believably amoral
clothes
Different skin colour
speaks english
despite being set in future
treated as if not human
can be used by characters
Loudon is aware of race
Zoe darkens her skin with mud
Moors are mentioned
Grave-robbing archeologists
"Magical Negro" Trope
Doesnt talk about being egyptian much
Literally taken from his grave, into british culture