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Re: Chronology--Who cares?

From: <Rfbagby~at~aol.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:37:26 EDT
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

REPLY: Though, Brian, don't you feel that a French audience would be more
willing to identify with an anti-British rebel than, say, an Algerian fighting
the French expansion across the Mediterranean? As witness, the portrayals of
hostile "natives" in CLOVIS DARDENTOR and THE INVASION OF THE SEA, and the
ambivalence in PROPELLER ISLAND.
In his Annotated 20,000 our own WJM points out that a possible Indian
identity for Nemo is raised in that work, when Nemo explains his somewhat
uncharacteristic rescue of the pearl diver as identifying with "the nation of the
oppressed", raising the issue whether he means it literally (as the Dakkar
identification later spells out) or merely metaphorically.
Ross
In a message dated 6/14/06 6:01:53 PM, btav~at~loc.gov writes:

<< For a
nation under imperial subjugation to almost overthrow the rule of the most
powerful nation on Earth, England, was a shock to Europeans.

To link Nemo with that very revolt not only precluded any European
identity for his character, and the European/American claim to hegemony
over the power of science, but placed Nemo nationally and ideologically
with those striving to overcome colonialism. And that was simply more
important than preserving any internal timelines within the fiction.


Brian Taves
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4692
Telephone: 202-707-9930; 202-707-2371 (fax)
Email: btav~at~loc.gov


Disclaimer--All opinions expressed are my own.
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