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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2010-09-20 09:34 am (UTC)Yes. It seems pretty clear that Woo has in mind non-white ethnic groups who have immigrated over the last several centuries. I agree she leaves Native Americans out of the equation. She also doesn't really account for ethnic groups who are white but not British (or "western European" - the two seem to be synonymous for her). Where do, say, the Italians, the Czechs, or indeed gnomicutterance fit in her schema?
I too find it dubious, this idea that white Americans have no mythology of displacement. I'm not American myself, so maybe don't fully understand its function, but I thought that Thanksgiving served precisely this purpose: not just a myth but a eucharist to boot!
(To be fair, we always have had lesbians here in Britain, and I don't see why Fantasy Britain need be denied them. Or are these Lesbians as in "from the island of Lesbos"? Sorry - I've not read Lo's book!)