JJ Arsenault
Currently reading... More to come later.
The footnotes are an odd injection of modern sentiments over a omniscient narrator. And they are many times wildly inaccurate. R.F. Kuang echoed the ridiculous 'European exceptionalism' argument in one of her footnotes that chattel slavery was a unique British/European institution. This is completely untrue. Just like every other abominal form of slavery, the chattel variety, has been practiced by so many numerous empires across every continent and time period that I couldn't list them all here.
Currently reading... More to come later.
The footnotes are an odd injection of modern sentiments over a omniscient narrator. And they are many times wildly inaccurate. R.F. Kuang echoed the ridiculous 'European exceptionalism' argument in one of her footnotes that chattel slavery was a unique British/European institution. This is completely untrue. Just like every other abominal form of slavery, the chattel variety, has been practiced by so many numerous empires across every continent and time period that I couldn't list them all here.