Ursula LeGuin's "Four Ways to Forgiveness" is a collection of 4 short stories set in the same universe that deals precisely with things like this. She comes from an anthropological perspective and so each of her stories is subverting the powerful culture/powerless culture and the outsider privileged narrator. One story is told by a former slavegirl, one by a guy from a tiny, bizarro-to-the-reader culture who spends most of his life in cultures that are extremely similar to ours today, one has a POV switch between a privileged outsider and a not-so-privileged local telling the same story... and I love the book besides, because I just find it's exceptionally well written. :)
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Date: 2010-04-24 06:39 pm (UTC)