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kutsuwamushi"...since there won't be any Native Americans to have already done a certain amount of prepping land for human occupation, nor to be exploited later..."
When The Thirteenth Child was still in the planning stages, Patricia Wrede discussed her idea on rec.arts.sf.composition -- and she said that.elynross has a much longer post about what she said here.
It perfectly illustrates what I meant in my last post about how Patricia Wrede is re-imagining a national myth that is about the discovery and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Although she recognizes that there were Native Americans present, she can still write of them as "prepping land for human occupation" as if there were no humans already there.
Because Native Americans only exist for the role that they play in the European colonization.
Without Europeans to give them a purpose, they aren't part of the tale, and so Patricia Wrede makes a ridiculous logical contradiction and doesn't notice.
That you can read it as implying that Native Americans are subhuman, well, doesn't help.
When The Thirteenth Child was still in the planning stages, Patricia Wrede discussed her idea on rec.arts.sf.composition -- and she said that.
elynross has a much longer post about what she said here.It perfectly illustrates what I meant in my last post about how Patricia Wrede is re-imagining a national myth that is about the discovery and settlement of the Americas by Europeans. Although she recognizes that there were Native Americans present, she can still write of them as "prepping land for human occupation" as if there were no humans already there.
Because Native Americans only exist for the role that they play in the European colonization.
Without Europeans to give them a purpose, they aren't part of the tale, and so Patricia Wrede makes a ridiculous logical contradiction and doesn't notice.
That you can read it as implying that Native Americans are subhuman, well, doesn't help.
