Word: antiguans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without some excellent moments (Harold Pinter makes an excellent pre-Victorian patriarch, dropping proper ultimatums right and left). But the new Mansfield Park, Rozema-style, takes the satire to a new level, mocking an entire era and bringing to the surface its deficiencies and ridiculousness. The criticism of the Antiguan slave trade in particular, less prominent in the novel, is quite visually brought to life in the film. By attempting to bring Austen herself into the movie and by transforming Austen's (questionable) implications into blatant innuendos, the director manages to make Jane Austen--well, raucous...
...sort of someone with a dual personality," Kincaid says. The American side is used to privilege, accustomed to taking more than her share of the world's wealth. The Antiguan side is a native of a third world country, no stranger to life without the simplest necessities...