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God, Gulliver, and Genocide

Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945

Gebonden Engels 2001 9780198184256
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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; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from the conquest of the Americas to the Nazi Holocaust, through the voices of many writers, including Montaigne, Swift and Shaw.

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ISBN13:9780198184256
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:420
Uitgever:OUP OXFORD

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