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2.0 out of 5 stars
Is the Savage Noble or Creepy?,
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This review is from: Heroes & Villains (Paperback)
There is a site called Expanded Horizons with the stated mission to expand fantasy and science fiction away from the white male dominant paradigm that seems to be entrenched in the genres. The Submission Guidelines are some of the funniest submission guidelines around due to the fact that the editors are venting their frustration on armies of clueless writers who have very bad definitions of multiculturalism. Howlers include "no lizard people" and "please don't set your story in the future where your main character is the only straight white male in existence." However, one of the more oft repeated "do not want" lines is the request to not create an alien or future species as a stand-in for Indians (or gypsies for that matter).
Angela Carter wrote this Man Called Horse novel at a time when a future human tribe that mimics Indians without being any particular tribe must have seemed innovative and brave instead of the tired cliche that makes your eyes roll in painful circles. As recently as 1989, silly little tripe like Dances With Wolves could win the academy award for depicting Indians as new age noble savages. So this book has the protagonist growing up in a post-apocalyptic settlement of professors guarded by soldiers. The fake Indians raid and people die. About a third of the way through, she gets kidnapped by the Indians (or savages) and dispenses with all that noble vs. ignoble savage jargon. Then there's a lot of blather about how Jewel is supposed to be her husband or lover or rapist. It's all very wordy and not terribly interesting. This is a dull book with a lot of dull action and uninteresting dialogue that doesn't really add up to much of anything. By the end of it, there's no real resolution besides a lot of books getting burned and Marianne being in a worse place than she started - making one assume that this was probably the first chapter in a trilogy or quadrology or whatever.
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