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This is the tumblr associated with Beyond Victoriana, the oldest-running blog about multicultural steampunk and retro-futurism--that is, steampunk outside of a Western-dominant, Eurocentric framework. All of the steampunkery here focuses on non-Western cultures, underrepresented minorities in Western histories (Asian / Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, First Nation, Hispanic, black / African & other marginalized identities), and the cultural intersection between the West and the non-West.

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The Copper Claw

You have failed, you have gone wrong, says the modern Orientalist. This, of course, is also V.S. Naipaul’s contribution to literature, that the victims of empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs. But what a shallow calculation of the imperial intrusion that is, how summarily it scants the immense distortion introduced by the empire into the lives of “lesser” peoples and “subject” races generation after generation, how little it wishes to face the long succession of years through which empire continues to work its way in the lives of, say, Palestinians or Congolese or Algerians or Iraqis.
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Edward Said, Preface (2003), Orientalism

This is what goes through my head whenever I hear a Westerner criticise a less-than-desirable state of affairs in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, or commit microaggressions in everyday conversation: you haven’t exactly made things easy for us.

(via ismjism)


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