Beyond Two Worlds

Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America
Herausgeber: Buss, James Joseph; Genetin-Pilawa, C Joseph

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9781438453415
• ISBN-10: 1438453418
• Artikelnr.: 40872413

Autorenporträt

James Joseph Buss is Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University and author of Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes. C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is Assistant Professor of History at Illinois College and author of Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War.