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Babar and the French Colonial Imagination

Print/Share This Post Email This Post Published by rwatstein September 21st, 2008 in books.

An upcoming exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York of Jean de Brunhoff’s working drafts and watercolors for Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (1931) has reignited a controversy over the meaning of the Babar books, said by some critics to represent European colonialism. Writer Adam Gopnik analyzes the series and concludes: “Far more than an allegory of colonialism, the Babar books are a fable of the difficulties of a bourgeois life.”

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