Seven American Nights explanation wins "award"

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 26 Aug 2010, 15:07 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Seven American Nights explanation wins "award"
In-Reply-To: <4C76752D.4090400 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <682209.41775.qm at web84103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Well put. 

I'm not sure how SAN is postcolonial, exactly. If anything, it's postrepublican: the government that seizes Nadan no longer has any pretense to being even a republic.

Nadan's presence in the US is more of a simple literary reversal of Orientalism. The story doesn't show the evils of imperialism except as practiced on one's own people, as dictatorship. If a foreign government were supporting that dictatorship, it might be different---but that doesn't appear to be the case. Nadan's tourism reveals those evils, not the evils of submission to foreign empire that allows such tourism as the British once practiced in, say Egypt, though they are superficially similar.

--- On Thu, 8/26/10, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Seven American Nights explanation wins "award"
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:07 AM

>> At least in recent years, Wolfe has been something of a Catholic populist right-winger,
>> and so I find it hard to believe he would write this story today. I would say the same of Fifth
>> Head of Cerberus,

Has Waggish read An Evil Guest?

Also, Wolfe has always been a populist right-winger.

Last year at this time I heard him say (as I reported then):

"The form of government I favor is democracy. America is not a democracy and never has been. We have a republic. That means that every so often we choose people to rule over us. And once we have, you can believe, they know it."

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