Random side point, but look at all our anti-imperialist works: nearly all of them depict the struggles against colonialism. Settler’s is unique, because it shows the other side: it holds a mirror up to the culture and history of the colonizer nation: what are his institutions, what is his history, how has he acted and treated people.
In movies like star wars, the anti-imperialist struggle is told through the eyes of colonized, while the colonizers are depicted as mindless automatons ala storm troopers, and soulless military leaders and and killers like vader. I imagine if george lucas had even one storyline focus on the lifestyles of the empire’s citizens or aristocracy, or dealt with the more complicated treatment of them being real people and not simply brainless drones, it would’ve touched too close to home and offended euro-amerikkkans, when depicting the Vietnam vs USA metaphor.
Love star wars obviously, but I can’t think of a single work of fiction that deals with the other side of settler-colonialism, and the benefits it brings to the colonizer’s lifestyles.
The originals never show any of the empire’s citizens, or even capital cities. All you know of them is the storm troopers, military commanders, imperial fleets, etc.
IE your perspective is that of the Vietnamese people seeing US troops and machinery invading your country. You never get even the smallest peek of what the empire’s cities or people are like. In the prequels, the most you get is the capital cities bureacrats.
Random side point, but look at all our anti-imperialist works: nearly all of them depict the struggles against colonialism. Settler’s is unique, because it shows the other side: it holds a mirror up to the culture and history of the colonizer nation: what are his institutions, what is his history, how has he acted and treated people.
In movies like star wars, the anti-imperialist struggle is told through the eyes of colonized, while the colonizers are depicted as mindless automatons ala storm troopers, and soulless military leaders and and killers like vader. I imagine if george lucas had even one storyline focus on the lifestyles of the empire’s citizens or aristocracy, or dealt with the more complicated treatment of them being real people and not simply brainless drones, it would’ve touched too close to home and offended euro-amerikkkans, when depicting the Vietnam vs USA metaphor.
Love star wars obviously, but I can’t think of a single work of fiction that deals with the other side of settler-colonialism, and the benefits it brings to the colonizer’s lifestyles.
Wait, I thought that was the prequels?
The originals never show any of the empire’s citizens, or even capital cities. All you know of them is the storm troopers, military commanders, imperial fleets, etc.
IE your perspective is that of the Vietnamese people seeing US troops and machinery invading your country. You never get even the smallest peek of what the empire’s cities or people are like. In the prequels, the most you get is the capital cities bureacrats.
Not OP, but the prequels are before the empire, and so you don’t really get to see the lives of everyday people within the imperial core.