steampunk allows the “incorrigible aficionados of Oriental romance [...] to reject the chains of reality and all the racism and guilt” associated with the imperial experience. Indeed, I asked, “Isn’t this, after all, steampunk’s very premise? To delve into a past that never really was.”
This (and the dismissive attitude toward Said) bothers me the most, because it's practically asking readers and writers to dismiss "all the racism and guilt."
(There was talk in (http://fen-at-sea.dreamwidth.org/profile)fen_at_sea (http://fen-at-sea.dreamwidth.org/) once of Steampunk Nusantara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara) (= the Indonesian archipelago), though sadly that discussion didn't go very much further after that. The possibilities!)
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Date: 2010-03-15 03:30 pm (UTC)This (and the dismissive attitude toward Said) bothers me the most, because it's practically asking readers and writers to dismiss "all the racism and guilt."
(There was talk in