Ebook: Beyond Two Worlds : Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America
- Tags: LIT004060, SOC021000
- Series: SUNY Series Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building Ser.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- City: Albany, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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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