![]() ![]() “Today those kinds of books are aimed at older children who, it is assumed, are better able to cope with the complex political and psychological issues. “Michael Bond’s Paddington books deal with immigration at a very subtle level,” says Professor Smith. ![]() In her research paper, Paddington Bear: A Case Study of Immigration and Otherness, Professor Smith has gone back to Paddington’s origins, Britain in 1958, a time of widespread racism, and growing multiculturalism, into which a small bear from ‘Darkest Peru’ arrives with a unique perspective on British life. Professor Angela Smith is based in the School of Culture at the University. A North East academic has discovered that the small bear is not only a fictional character who is entertaining – he is also an illegal immigrant, and even an early pioneer of racial equality. ![]()
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