doug wrote, quoting meaghan morris
> "...a society that has produced its own identity historically by
> dispossessing
> others now finds itself subject to fears, and sometimes enjoyable
> fantasies, of displacement."
Actually, there's nothing new about this, it didn't just start happening, it's been going on all along.
Remember *The Tempest"? Remember Caliban wanting to get his island back?
And here in colonial America, the very FIRST form of popular literary genre (after the sermon) was the Captivity Narrative.
The Puritan colonists had captured/stolen the very homeland of the natives, and they were immediately "subject to fears, and sometimes enjoyable fantasies, of displacement." In fact, as I recall from reading the ur-text, the story of Mary Rowlandson, I think it was, that she rather revelled in the thought before it happened to her & then had a grand old time repenting of her frivolous attitude once it actually happened to her.
X-Files anyone?
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
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