Sensitivity readers review of the classic Ian Fleming texts due to be reissued
“A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”Dated references to other ethnicities remain, such as Bond’s racial terms for Asian people and the spy’s disparaging views of the Korean character Oddjob. Remarks about the “sweet tang of rape,” “blithering women” failing to do a “man’s work,” and homosexuality being a “stubborn disability” also remain.
The original passage previously read: “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry.” The “n” word, which Fleming used to refer to Black people, when he was writing during the 1950s and ’60s, has been almost entirely expunged from the revised texts.
Detail is also removed in Goldfinger , in which the race of the drivers in Red Ball Express — the Second World War logistics unit that had many Black servicemen — is not referenced, instead referring only to “ex-drivers.”Article content “Following Ian’s approach, we looked at the instances of several racial terms across the books and removed a number of individual words or else swapped them for terms that are more accepted today but in keeping with the period in which the books were written.Article contentIn the past, Fleming’s U.S. publishers changed the title of Casino Royale to You Asked For It, and 007 was even referred to in the blurb as “Jimmy Bond.
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