Given that Dune is now back in the zeitgeist, it seems a good time to bring back this essay I wrote which demonstrates the ways in which Dune's construction of the Fremen follows on a set of literally ancient tropes about the 'barbarian' other:https://acoup.blog/2020/02/21/collections-the-fremen-mirage-interlude-ways-of-the-fremen/ …
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In an oddly appropriate way, this reads like a fundamentalist theological essay. "All that matters is what the text says and the direct implication of those words, not what we might wish it to say, or imagine might lurk between the lines."
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I can hear Catholic theologians - I'm sorry, the Bene Gesserit - stepping up to say "Actually, interpretation is difficult and far from ambiguous and this is why you need our millenia of continuous culture to help"
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And if this was a real, living tradition, I'd agree! But of course the Fremen aren't a real living tradition, but a fictional culture that exists in a single book. Cultural analysis is *tremendously* simplified when the culture in question is both fictional and clearly bounded.
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