Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery

By Wendy C. Hamblet

Book Overview

Savage Constructions challenges the popular Western assumption that violence is an essential quality of darker-skinned populations, arguing that Western imperialist projects are largely responsible for the current violences that 'rebound' in victim societies of the post-colonial world. 'Rebounding violence' expresses victim abjection and overly aggressive 'identity work' in survivors of repressive regimes after long-term exposure to denigrating myths that cast the victims as morally wanting and deserving of the abuse they suffered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739122819
• ISBN13: 9780739122815
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"