Beyond Two Worlds
Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
Av James Joseph Buss, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
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Examines the origins, efficacy, legacy, and consequences of envisioning both Native and non-Native "worlds."Beyond Two Worlds brings together scholars of Native history and Native American studies to offer fresh insights into the methodological and conceptual significance of the "two-worlds framework." They address the following questions: Where did the two-worlds framework originate? How has it changed over time? How does it continue to operate in today's world? Most people recognize the language of binaries birthed by the two-worlds trope-savage and civilized, East and West, primitive and modern. For more than four centuries, this lexicon has served as a grammar for settler colonialism. While many scholars have chastised this type of terminology in recent years, the power behind these words persists. With imagination and a critical evaluation of how language, politics, economics, and culture all influence the expectations that we place on one another, the contributors to this volume rethink the two-worlds trope, adding considerably to our understanding of the past and present.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2015-07-02
- Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
- Vikt463 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieSUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
- Antal sidor348
- FörlagState University of New York Press
- ISBN9781438453422