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Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World?

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One hundred years after Edgar Rice Burroughs’s first Tarzan novel appeared, the famous ape-man has turned into an awkward symbol of political incorrectness.

Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia
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