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Informationen zum Autor Wendy Hamblet is an assistant professor in the Department of University Studies / Liberal Studies at North Carolina A&T State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Challenges the Western assumption that violence is an essential quality of darker-skinned populations. This book argues that Western imperialist projects are responsible for the violences that rebound in victim societies of the post-colonial world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
