NP "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[Dave Monroe]

Very quickly ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> What is overlooked is that any interpretation of a
> text is a text too, in and of itself, and subject to
> the same sorts of "political unconscious" as any
> other text. 

By whom?  Moi?  Say it ain't so ...

> Further, while the number of interpretations of a
> text is possibly or potentially infinite, some of
> these interpretations are bound to be mutually
> exclusive.

Which doesn't necessarily mean they negate each other,
render each other invalid, whatever.  The more the
merrier.  Where are those Midrashic one-liners I used
to be able to toss off when I need 'em ...
 
> You asserted that TLOTR is indelibly and
> indisputably "'about'" WWII. I assert that this is
> not necessarily so.

Who?  Me?  Say it ain't so.  Not usually nearly so
assertive, but ... well, no, TLOTR passed through WWII
along with Tolkien, traces there to be remarked.  I
hardly dispute those left by WWI, natch.  See, e.g.,
those NYRB articles I hyperlinked y'all to, even the
argument we're having, such as it is, is mentioned
somewhere therein.  And we haven't even made it to
"the" A- and/or H-bomb ... but this is hardly to claim
WWII as the key to TLOTR, not at all.  Again, I've
been remarking more the trilogy's recurring resurgence
in "the popular imagination" or whatever.  Some times
ahve been riper for such than others ...

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