I'm so glad you enjoyed The God of Small Things!! the book just wallops you with every line, I'm so glad it exists. my partner studied it as a literature text for his A Levels, and the book's unflinching yet still evocative and evocatively despairing way of describing Extremely Upsetting events is something. I'm really glad you picked out that ruthless and totally candid innocence in arundhati roy's style, those were MTE.
I'm vaguely a TLT fan insofar as one can call herself that when she diverges from 80% of the mainstream fandom taste, so I sympathise with your frustrations. I thought NtN was a good opportunity to unpack and move away from that self-absorbed internalist empire perspective, and Muir does that to some degree... but she's also just uninvested in empire as a primary political throughline next to uhhhhh emotional and psychological scaping, I guess, so Thoughts on Empire just take a huge backseat. definitely one of my biggest criticisms of her.
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Date: 2024-10-05 11:52 pm (UTC)I'm vaguely a TLT fan insofar as one can call herself that when she diverges from 80% of the mainstream fandom taste, so I sympathise with your frustrations. I thought NtN was a good opportunity to unpack and move away from that self-absorbed internalist empire perspective, and Muir does that to some degree... but she's also just uninvested in empire as a primary political throughline next to uhhhhh emotional and psychological scaping, I guess, so Thoughts on Empire just take a huge backseat. definitely one of my biggest criticisms of her.
hope you're well! <3