I suppose it wouldn't count where you're looking at works where the writer was, by our standards, a bigot, but nobody who knew him would have considered him such? 'Cos a lot of literature from the last 200 years comes from offensive assumptions, although they're usually under the surface (check out the original Holmes novels, Rudyard Kipling, etc.)
I suppose Zadie Smith's White Teeth is full of well-rounded, intelligent characters who are full of prejudices. They're frequently the prejudice of, say, Muslims against Christians, or Jamiacan Brits against whites, etc., which muddies the waters a little, and come a lot from the perspective of minorities rather than majorities, but it more or less fulfills what you were saying.
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Date: 2012-02-04 05:43 pm (UTC)I suppose Zadie Smith's White Teeth is full of well-rounded, intelligent characters who are full of prejudices. They're frequently the prejudice of, say, Muslims against Christians, or Jamiacan Brits against whites, etc., which muddies the waters a little, and come a lot from the perspective of minorities rather than majorities, but it more or less fulfills what you were saying.