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[Monte Davis]

Very interesting - thanks! It's no criticism of Pynchon's "big picture"
uses of colonialism, genocide, etc. to notice how gnarly and convoluted and
political the moral aftermath gets in real time in real Namibia. Ditto for
Israel and Palestinians, England and Ireland/Scotland, Russia and post-1990
neighbors, US and Mexico or Puerto Rico or..., you name it. The simplest
Oppressor-Victim narratives often obscure a lot of division, infighting and
betrayal among the victims.

Come to think of it, you could argue that P *does* open that angle of view
in the debates among the Herero in Germany. And I'm certain there was
deliberation behind Mason & Dixon's arrival at the ancient, well-worn
Native American warpath... and Wren Provenance's discovery in AtD that
*somebody* fiercer had driven the proto-Aztecs from an earlier homeland to
the Valley of Mexico.


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:55 AM, e tb <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Salt in old wounds: What Germany owes Namibia | The Economist
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> http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/
> 21721918-saying-sorry-atrocities-century-ago-has-so-
> far-made-matters-worse-what
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