Description: How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery by David K. O'Rourke From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North Americas founding householders - English and Spanish alike - took the limited European practice of coerced labor and, over the course of two hundred years, transformed it into a depersonalized and brutal chattel slavery unlike anything that had existed in Europe. What system of language and logic, what visions of religious and civil society, allowed men who saw themselves both as Christians and cultured humanists to dehumanize and enslave people whose cultures and accomplishments were evident to nearly all? In this book we observe the progressive development of a mindset that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as others who did not merit human status. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Central to the authors argument is the proposition that the idea of literature-at least as it has been understood in the West since the eighteenth century-as the paradigm for artistic experience is both limited and limiting. In its place, the author offers a more general theory of aesthetic experience appropriate to a wide range of media (in the terms broadest sense) and geared toward performativity and bodily experience. The author develops the idea of the "protoliterary" as a cultural-aesthetic discourse prior to and external to the "literary" as traditionally conceived in Western aesthetics. Manifestations of the protoliterary tend to occur within forms of multimedia theatricalization in which suggestive images of the body loom large. The appeal of the protoliterary lies in its ability to function on both cognitive and somatic levels, thereby neutralizing such distinctions as self/society and reality/fiction. The authors argument is indebted to John Deweys belief in a basic human need for aesthetic experience, a need that can be met in a variety of ways, from tattoos and scarification, through sports, parades, and cosmetics, to literature, opera, and film. From this basis the book theorizes a history of the development of separate, hierarchical arts in the West while suggesting that independent histories of single arts and artistic experience are no longer desirable or even possible. Although the genesis of particular forms of media are inextricably linked to specific historical, sociological, and technological conditions, their potential functions and effects are not tied to those conditions, nor should they be. Author Biography The Author: Theologian, editor, and essayist David K. ORourke writes extensively in the area of cultural history with an emphasis on religion. Among his books are Demons by Definition: Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent (Peter Lang, 1998); A Process of Conversion (1985); and The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It (1983). In addition to his AB from Yale, David ORourke has received the theological degrees S.T.Lic. and S.T.Lr. He is Senior Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in Berkeley, California. Details ISBN0820468142 Author David K. ORourke Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc ISBN-10 0820468142 ISBN-13 9780820468143 Format Hardcover Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc Subtitle Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion Country of Publication United States DEWEY 973.0496073 Edition 1st Short Title HOW AMER 1ST SETTLERS INVENTED Language English Media Book Series Number 56 Pages 210 Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-11-01 DOI 10.1604/9780820468143 UK Release Date 2004-11-01 AU Release Date 2004-11-01 NZ Release Date 2004-11-01 US Release Date 2004-11-01 Series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130848447;
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ISBN-13: 9780820468143
Book Title: How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2004
Number of Pages: 210 Pages
Publication Name: How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery: Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 420 g
Author: David K. O'rourke
Format: Hardcover
