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Robert Rogers (1) (1731–1795)

Autor(a) de Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers

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10 Works 75 Membros 1 Review

Obras de Robert Rogers

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1731-11-07
Data de falecimento
1795-05-18
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Methuen, Massachusetts, USA
Ocupação
soldier
playwright

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Resenhas

This tragedy is kind of epic! And actually quite decent. It's the seventeen-fifties in eastern North America, the French snake has given way to the British bully, and the poor old native people are being murdered and abused as an adjunct of trade policy. That old story. But then noble Ponteach (=the historical Pontiac), king of the Ottawa, gets a rebellion up, a lot of lovely speeches are made about the time before the white man and the wheel when the huge dark forest was too silent to be real, we see the British villains die in satisfying ways, the rebellion is brought down tragically from inside because human venality and personal differences between the princes, as always, undermine the collective struggle. The Earth has drunk too much blood, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. The deaths of the British go from satisfying to unsettling, we are reminded of our own implcatedness (why else are noble First Nations savages our favourite kind of heroes?), and it all ends in Hegelian worldhistorical heartbreak. I was impressed with how strongly Rogers advocated for the native cause (especially since he fought against them in the real-life Pontiac's rebellion) and the sly parallels he drew between natives and Europeans in matters of e.g. religion and totemography (although this also leaves him very open to the charge of Europeanizing the native Other, which is why this doesn't get a better rating). Satisfyingly crunchy, especially for the 18th c.… (mais)
½
 
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MeditationesMartini | Mar 21, 2010 |

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Obras
10
Membros
75
Popularidade
#235,804
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
1
ISBNs
63

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