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Beyond Two Worlds : Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America, EPUB eBook

Beyond Two Worlds : Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America EPUB

Edited by James Joseph Buss, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Part of the SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building series

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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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