Beyond Two Worlds
Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America
By C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, James Joseph Buss | Publisher: State University of New York Press
About the book
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.
Editions of Beyond Two Worlds
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781438453415
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781438453422
- PDF
- ISBN 9781438453439
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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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What is Beyond Two Worlds about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Beyond Two Worlds?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
Where can I read a sample of Beyond Two Worlds?
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How long is Beyond Two Worlds and how many pages does it have?
Beyond Two Worlds has 348 page(s)
Is Beyond Two Worlds part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Beyond Two Worlds?
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, James Joseph Buss
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Beyond Two Worlds is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438453415) and paperback(ISBN 9781438453422) and pdf(ISBN 9781438453439)
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