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The savage as living ghost: representations of Native Americans and scholarly failures to dismantle the notion of the savage
As Native Americans constitute the paradigmatic figuration of the savage since the European conquest of America, I focus particularly on the ways the West has constructed Native Americans as savages in this study. In Western discourse, the terms “savage” and “civilized” appear quite frequently in political speeches, the media, academic works, and daily conversation. This study looks critically at the rhetoric...Show more
The Savage as Living Ghost is a study about four scholarly failures to dismantle the notion of the savage in Western discourse. These scholarly attempts are, broadly, structuralist, poststructuralist, postcolonial or multiculturalist, and decolonial. This study examines these four scholarly attempts by confronting them with close-readings of literary works or films in which the notion of the savage is attached to or associated with Native Americans.
As Native Americans constitute the paradigmatic figuration of the savage since the European conquest of America, I focus particularly on the ways the West has constructed Native Americans as savages in this study. In Western discourse, the terms “savage” and “civilized” appear quite frequently in political speeches, the media, academic works, and daily conversation. This study looks critically at the rhetoric of civilization which designates Native Americans as savages and Europeans as civilized, and traces how the notion of the savage serves as a moral and cultural term to establish a hierarchy between Native Americans and the Europeans. Studying this process of othering reveals the dark side of European modernity.
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- All authors
- Chen, C.
- Supervisor
- Korsten, F.W.
- Co-supervisor
- Boletsi, M.
- Committee
- Zijlmans, K.; Liebregts, P.; Luisetti, F.; Horsman, Y.; Peeren, E.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Centre for the Arts in Society , Humanities , Leiden University
- Date
- 2017-03-21
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)