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Ambivalent about Tin Tin

Categories: Western Europe, Belgium, Arts & Culture, Ethnicity & Race, Ideas, International Relations, Literature

A New York Times article on a PBS documentary about HergĂ©, the Belgian creator of the comic strip character Tin Tin, raises some uncomfortable issues for Belizean-American blogger Nyazasha: “Here I am, the Brooklyn-based writer of the Global Parish, writing about places and events which open a window into a wider world, countries I have not always been ready or able to dwell in. . . . [1]