tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post7862912559674511522..comments2023-03-27T01:08:48.164-07:00Comments on Diverse Fictions: Medievalism and Colonialism RevisitedHelen younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03089106804807201826noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post-21176077751318228772012-10-21T18:24:51.343-07:002012-10-21T18:24:51.343-07:00I haven't read all Hobb's series, but give...I haven't read all Hobb's series, but given her interest it doesn't surprise me that she gestures towards these kinds of themes in a medievalist text too. There are a few, but its always - so far as I can see - something that has already happened, and is also always presented as straight out conquest. By that I mean there were one or two major battles and then one land was occupied militarily by another, this has happened in the real world of course, but its a different process to, say, settler colonialism. Conquest seems to be ok in medievalist fantasy, but slower colonialist processes aren't. Thanks for the addition to my list of books that do take up these themes though. I guess that really what I'm saying is there is a particular approach to a particular kind of imperialism/colonialism/conquest that doesn't appear in medievalist fantasy.Helen younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03089106804807201826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post-41092203190265692392012-10-11T06:46:36.785-07:002012-10-11T06:46:36.785-07:00I would suggest that there are motions toward colo...I would suggest that there are motions toward colonialism in Hobb's Farseer trilogy. She does not do much in that direction, but there *is* the expressed tension between the Coastal Duchies and the Inland Duchies, one deriving in large part from the conquest of the latter by the former. I have not done the work to investigate it yet, but it seems to me that it is worth a look.Folghahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216211342742260055noreply@blogger.com