Aravis: Difference between revisions

Several writers, including [[Phillip Pullman]],<ref name="Ezard">{{cite news|last1=Ezard|first1=John|title=Narnia books attacked as racist and sexist|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/03/gender.hayfestival2002|accessdate=26 March 2015|publisher=The Guardian|date=3 June 2002|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208163207/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/03/gender.hayfestival2002|archivedate=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4347226.stm Pullman attacks Narnia film plans]" ''[[BBC News]]'', 16 October 2005</ref> [[Kyrie O'Connor]],<ref name="OConnor">Kyrie O'Connor, "[http://web.archive.org/web/20051214153306/http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/LIVING/512010303/1007 5th Narnia book may not see big screen]" IndyStar.com, 1 December 2005</ref>, and [[Gregg Easterbrook]],<ref>October 2001 of The Atlantic</ref> consider the use of Calormene characters as villains to be evidence of racism. Aravis is often presented as a counterexample to this (along with [[Emeth]], who is accepted in Aslan's country for good deeds worthy of Aslan), since she is sympathetically portrayed as a largely virtuous Calormene heroine.