Politicians have abandoned ship, and so have the wealthy and powerful, i.e., the whites. It is blanketed under a cloud of red dust and chemical accidents, which have contaminated its waters, made breathing difficult, and cancer inevitable. Earth, with America serving as its microcosm, has become uninhabitable. So, delineating a whole race as inferior for not following the ways of the ones doling out the judgement, resulting in a war, and subsequent conquest of said inferior race: sound familiar?Īt this point, we turn from the biblical past to a probable future, established by Onyebuchi in his first adult science fiction novel, Goliath. However, the Philistines are not without their own history of persecution, forced assimilation, and erasure of identity, all quietly overlooked in this battle between good and evil-evil of course being the Philistines.
Goliath was a Philistine, a word which has been adopted into common parlance as indicative of uncouth and boorish behaviour, i.e., uncultured. And, as is with any underdog tale, one must always keenly inspect the context in which the underdog shines and the demonised other lies dead. The biblical tale of David versus Goliath is one of the first underdog tales to have existed.
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