![]() These assessments have led over the long term to Mittelholzer’s marginalization within academic circles and are partial explanation for the relatively small amount of critical attention his novels receive today. McDougall’s statement based on the assessments of past scholars is typical: ‘Mittelholzer is known to have suffered a sense of “genetic injury,” as Gilkes phrases the problem, because of his “Negro blood”, which in Mittelholzer’s own (unfortunately fascist and racist) view, contaminated his European inheritance.’ (1992: 79). ![]() ![]() These views initially and respectively highlighted by scholars 2 like Geoffrey Wagner (1961) and Joyce Sparer (1968), were said to reflect the views of the author have been repeated ad infinitum based largely on received wisdom, a surface analysis of the text and Mittelholzer’s interest in German philosophers like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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