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A description of the entrance of Elmer Stark, father of Eddy and Tony, into the world of the story makes both the masculine and the feminine exotic, other, and unknowable, while at the same time igniting tensions and passions -- outright lust, in fact -- between them in a fetishization of the other. Nettie, the Stark matriarch, is described watching this stranger wash, "his naked shoulders, the gleam of his skin, and the lines of charred bronze where the sun had burned his neck and wrists, the faint red-gold of the hairs that edged from under his belt at his waist" (Lane, p. 144). This description makes it clear that Elmer is not being viewed as a human, but as an other, just as Nettie is creating her own distance and just as distances were created with the native peoples through such objectification.

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With such beginnings as these, it is little wonder that Eddy Stark grows into an embodiment of alienation.

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The haunting, sexualized, and distanced elements of interactions in this book make a feminist postcolonial gothic reading especially appropriate. The Starks are a family of others, distancing themselves through the memories of their violent past. In a land full of violent and separated (or clashing) histories, they are evocative of the regional spirit.

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