M&D article

[jbor]

Interesting article: thanks to Erik for the heads up.

One excerpt (the second half of this passage) caught my eye as rather odd:

[...]
Sterloop rifles with five-pointed stars abuse Africans in the Cape of Good
Hope (101) just as Sterloops effect "the Catastrophick Resolution of
Inter-Populational Cross-Purposes" in Pennsylvania (342-43) just as
Sterloops drive Africans to labor in Lord and Lady Lepton's Chesapeake
Iron-Plantation and to perform in their Ridotto's Slave Orchestra, prototype
for the musical reception committee at Auschwitz (427-28). All of which
makes moot all questions of whether the provenance of the gun is Dutch, as
Mason insists, or American, as Dixon claims (428), or whether Americans are
any more British than the Cape Dutch are Dutch (248).
[...] (286)

'A "PATCH OF ENGLAND, AT A THREE-THOUSAND-MILE OFF-SET"? REPRESENTING
AMERICA IN _MASON & DIXON_' by Stacey Olster. _Modern Fiction Studies_,
Volume 50, number 2, Summer 2004, 283-302.

If anyone would like me to forward a pdf of the full article please contact
me offlist.

best