James Bond Uncovered by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Non-traditional Communication Networks

In keeping with the importance of the communication networks and channels that support his illicit trade in gold, Mr. Big also spreads a highly effective rumour that he is ‘the Zombie or living corpse of Baron Samedi himself, the dreaded Prince of Darkness’ (Fleming 1954, 2004, 019). Big ‘foster[s] the story so that [it becomes] accepted through all the lower strata of the Negro world’, and then wields the occult as a means of maintaining a loyal force of informants throughout the so-called lower echelons of American society (ibid.). Fleming develops an elaborate fictional network around this social sector, occupied exclusively by people of colour in Live and Let Die, along with a theory about their cultural heritage and connectivity:And what a brilliant set up for dealing with the smaller fry of the Negro underworld and for keeping a coloured information network well up to the mark – the fear of Voodoo and the supernatural, still deeply, primevally ingrained in the Negro subconscious! And what genius to have, as a beginning, the whole transport system of America under surveillance, the trains, the porters, the truck drivers, the stevedores! (ibid., 020)

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