Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

"prestorjon" <prestorjon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Jun 4, 1:34 am, Steve <joatsim...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> -- if you're thinking of the Draka books, the "subaltern groups"
>> mostly show _are_ white people.  Unless you don't count the French in
> >that category?

>Of course many of the subalterns in Draka are white, but that doesn't
>negate the racial aspect here.  With the exception of the USCG
>commander in ISOT, who notably rejects much of her racial
>identification, there aren't any non-white leads that I can think of
>in Stirling's works.  Those non-white characters who exist are mostly
>cyphers.  They have no real personality of their own, concerns of
>their own, goals of their own.  They just exist as extensions of the
>white protagonists willpower and an example of the dominance of
>western, mostly white, people over non-western non white peoples.



I sometimes felt that the language used by serfs to Draka - "Mistis" and
the
like - had a distinctly "Gone With the Wind" flavour to it, which seemed
to
be more noticeable in the ones who were more loyal tot heir masters. But
it's been a while since I read the books, and that may have just been my
imagination.


--

Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

Q) In the Roman Civil Wars, why did all the bachelors fight for Sulla?

A) Because they weren't the Marian kind.