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Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America
出版State University of New York Press, 2014-08-21
主題Literary Criticism / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American StudiesHistory / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
ISBN14384534349781438453439
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aWNbBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.