Dark Vanishings - Patrick Brantlinger
Discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-193
KORTE INHOUD
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all primitive or savage races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that savagery is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of 'savages' from the grand theater of world history.
"By tracing a single strand in the complex web of British and American writings about race, Patrick Brantlinger's 'Dark Vanishings' reveals a surprisingly conistent, widespread, and long-lived consensus that 'savage' races were fated to become extinct. Brantlinger reveals the persistence of this claim, often made in regretful and elegiac modes, across centuries, continents, and political persuasions. 'Darl Vanishings' also challenges us...
"By tracing a single strand in the complex web of British and American writings about race, Patrick Brantlinger's 'Dark Vanishings' reveals a surprisingly conistent, widespread, and long-lived consensus that 'savage' races were fated to become extinct. Brantlinger reveals the persistence of this claim, often made in regretful and elegiac modes, across centuries, continents, and political persuasions. 'Darl Vanishings' also challenges us...
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