skygiants

Yeah, the treatment of Incan culture was - actually much better than I was expecting from an eighteenth-century French novel (Zilia ends the book impressed with certain aspects of French technology, but still feeling an overall much stronger attachment to her own religion and cultural mores, and the book respects and backs up that choice!) but that does not make it any less clueless.

. . . also, I mean, I am sure it was great for French readers to think "oh, well, the colonized princess doesn't have it so bad, she gets picked up by a nice French dudes and given a fancy house!" Hahahaha not so much. BUT ANYWAY. THAT ASIDE, I still loved Zilia's constant smackdowns of the Nice Guy. SHE DOESN'T OWE HIM ANYTHING. Yes, he gave her a lot of jewels, but they were HER JEWELS FROM HER COUNTRY ANYWAY. And that is said in the text too! (Hahaha I have no idea. But my suspicion is FROM HER BRAIN.)