God, Gulliver, and Genocide

God, Gulliver, and Genocide
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : 0199257507
ISBN-13 : 9780199257508
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Download or read book God, Gulliver, and Genocide written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we aspire to, and who have an extraordinaryinfluence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilised metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. They come in two overlapping categories, ethnic others and home-grownpariahs: conquered infidels and savages, the Irish, the poor, the Jews. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw.


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