Thank you for this post, for a glimpse of what it's like to have a weight of history behind you, no matter how bitter that history. I don't know which is the more chilling; statistics of starvation, the 'humorous' dehumanisation, Eavan Boland's poem (which is new to me, incidentally, so thank you again).
My parents were economic migrants. My grandparents were economic migrants. If I had kids, they too would be economic migrants, because they could never afford to buy or rent in this area. I have no idea where the bones of my ancestors lie. Maybe that's why I research local history - an attempt to put down deeper roots in the place I grew up...
I love a literature to which I'm largely invisible... Yes. Older, female, working class, socialist - not among the top ten of SFF protagonists. But things are so much better than they used to be. At least there are women in SFF land now. When I first started reading the genre, there were only cardboard cut-outs of 'ladies'...
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Date: 2012-02-08 07:47 am (UTC)My parents were economic migrants. My grandparents were economic migrants. If I had kids, they too would be economic migrants, because they could never afford to buy or rent in this area. I have no idea where the bones of my ancestors lie. Maybe that's why I research local history - an attempt to put down deeper roots in the place I grew up...
I love a literature to which I'm largely invisible... Yes. Older, female, working class, socialist - not among the top ten of SFF protagonists. But things are so much better than they used to be. At least there are women in SFF land now. When I first started reading the genre, there were only cardboard cut-outs of 'ladies'...