The English Patient | Susan E. Hawkins and Susan Danielson
The English Patient Susan E. Hawkins and Susan Danielson
Susan E. Hawkins and Susan Danielson
In the following essay excerpt, Hawkins and Danielson examine how the film version of The English Patient "erases the geopolitical stakes at issue" in the novel to sustain a Western imperialist view of World War II.
In the end it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality. Benedict Anderson
The public reception of the film The English Patient (1996) constitutes a...
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