Negative Positive
Title: Landscape of the mind
Review: Like her character, Prudence, Rosa Shand paints portraits. Not only of the African landscape, but also the landscape of the mind. By staying "locked" in the eyes and ears of Agnes, Shand conveys a true, subjective experience of a woman living her life in Amin's Uganda. But The Gravity of Sunlight is not about politics or Africa. It is about Agnes. About her unfulfilling marriage. And the sublimation of her extramarital, interracial desire.A reader above calls this book racist. Baloney. This book is about Agnes, not the apotheosis of Africans, and the Africans whom Agnes does meet are in no way "demonized." Sadly, this critic's predilection to see racism will distort anything he reads. Furthermore, false accusations like his damage good people and impair our ability to detect real racism when it does occur.
Is the review positive or negative? 