Wendy C. Hamblet

Savage Constructions

The Myth of African Savagery

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Produktbeschreibung

Savage Constructions challenges the popular Western assumption that violence is an essential quality of darker-skinned populations, arguing that Western imperialist projects are largely responsible for the current violences that 'rebound' in victim societies of the post-colonial world. 'Rebounding violence' expresses victim abjection and overly aggressive 'identity work' in survivors of repressive regimes after long-term exposure to denigrating myths that cast the victims as morally wanting and deserving of the abuse they suffered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122815
• ISBN-10: 0739122819
• Artikelnr.: 23439601

Autorenporträt

Wendy Hamblet is an assistant professor in the Department of University Studies / Liberal Studies at North Carolina A&T State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 One: The Savagery of "Civilizing" Forces
Chapter 3 Two: Orienting Notions Chapter 4 Three: The Truth of Myth, The
Myth of Truth Chapter 5 Four: Rebounding Violence in Social Rituals Chapter
6 Five: Precolonial Africa Chapter 7 Six: Colonialist Constructions of
Africans Chapter 8 Seven: Anthropological Constructions of Africans Chapter
9 Eight: Religious and Medical Constructions of Africans Chapter 10 Nine:
Western Philosophy's Human Hierarchy Chapter 11 Ten: African Self-Identity
After Colonialist Myth Chapter 12 Eleven: Conflict of African and Colonial
Identifications Chapter 13 Twelve: Savage Is as Savage Does Chapter 14
Thirteen: Rebounding Violences Chapter 15 Fourteen: African Philosophical
Therapy Chapter 16 Fifteen: Concluding the Savagery