Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority, rendering the tribes an aphasia to be discovered by the Phantomic gaze and to be suppressed at the closure of Phantom’s narrative diction.
Fig.30. The old storyteller Mozz.Lee Falk. The 22nd Phantom, n.p
These non-existent natives whole existence …show more content…
Thus through these native story tellers like Mozz the readers get these alternative historiographies and in this way Phantom’s writ memory grows with time. The memories of the native people lose its importance as it is usurped by the writ memories in Phantom’s library narrated by Phantom himself and the death of the father of the first Phantom is transformed into a sorrowful apologia for continuing the colonial narrative monologue which is brought into harmony at the very moment of Phantom’s paleonymical beginning. Every Phantom, right from the second to the twenty-first, has adopted and carried forward the same name of the dead, to be reborn again and carry forward the oath taken by Phantom’s predecessor. The external …show more content…
Phantom is given the authority to inaugurate the jungle Olympics and award the winners with the trophies. The athletic body of Phantom himself marks him out as the most ideal ruler- the true representative of British colonizer- a man who is far more superior to the natives both physically and mentally. It is because of his superior intelligence and physical prowess – the excess of masculinity portrayed through him-that he remains fearless of the feminine ‘Other’. It is quite interesting that almost all the Phantoms, at their tender age, are trained by the pygmy bandors; all the athletic and superior skills to adopt and adapt the life of a jungle, are taught by these inhabitants under the Panoptican view of his predecessor. But this indebtedness to the black inhabitants remains unacknowledged and recedes into oblivion under the charismatic personality of the white Phantomic
Fig.30. The old storyteller Mozz.Lee Falk. The 22nd Phantom, n.p
These non-existent natives whole existence …show more content…
Thus through these native story tellers like Mozz the readers get these alternative historiographies and in this way Phantom’s writ memory grows with time. The memories of the native people lose its importance as it is usurped by the writ memories in Phantom’s library narrated by Phantom himself and the death of the father of the first Phantom is transformed into a sorrowful apologia for continuing the colonial narrative monologue which is brought into harmony at the very moment of Phantom’s paleonymical beginning. Every Phantom, right from the second to the twenty-first, has adopted and carried forward the same name of the dead, to be reborn again and carry forward the oath taken by Phantom’s predecessor. The external …show more content…
Phantom is given the authority to inaugurate the jungle Olympics and award the winners with the trophies. The athletic body of Phantom himself marks him out as the most ideal ruler- the true representative of British colonizer- a man who is far more superior to the natives both physically and mentally. It is because of his superior intelligence and physical prowess – the excess of masculinity portrayed through him-that he remains fearless of the feminine ‘Other’. It is quite interesting that almost all the Phantoms, at their tender age, are trained by the pygmy bandors; all the athletic and superior skills to adopt and adapt the life of a jungle, are taught by these inhabitants under the Panoptican view of his predecessor. But this indebtedness to the black inhabitants remains unacknowledged and recedes into oblivion under the charismatic personality of the white Phantomic