I'd love to see one of the favorite tropes of alternate history fantasy, steampunk, mashup whatever you call it these days -- if you really want to re-imagine a world in which the indigenous populations weren't destroyed, Africans weren't brought to be slaves, etc. -- how about the 'New' World invade the 'Old' World? You'd have to do some serious thinking about history and the hinges. You'd have to really KNOW something.
Pretending that this usual re-imagining can do it without Indians, African slaves and all the rest, does NOT work. We still have Indians, but this time they're, oh, well -- trolls, with brightly colored feathers -- still not human Like Us.
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Date: 2011-09-01 08:53 pm (UTC)Pretending that this usual re-imagining can do it without Indians, African slaves and all the rest, does NOT work. We still have Indians, but this time they're, oh, well -- trolls, with brightly colored feathers -- still not human Like Us.
Love, C.