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- catalog abstract ""When we say certain people 'ought to be shot', or exterminated from 'the face of the earth', we usually do so in the knowledge that we will not be thought to mean it literally. It is a figure of speech, partially sanitized by the conventions of social usage. We also create myths, stories, histories of which the same might be said. The victims in these stories may be whole peoples or groups of people, or even the whole of humanity, as when God said He would 'destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth'. The phrasing reverberates throughout scripture and human history. It has been applied to the people to Israel and to their enemies, to conquered savages, the Irish, the poor, and the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Its usage has ranged from the deadliest genocidal intentions, to satirical threats, fictional fantasies and colloquial expressions of undeadly irritation. We 'mean' it, don't mean it, and don't not mean it, and the demarcations are often unclear." "God, Gulliver, and Genocide explores the range of aggressions which inhabit the space between such figures of speech and their implementation, from the book of Genesis to the present day, but more especially in the period between the conquest to the Americas and the end of World War II. It examines a wide variety of authors and voices, chiefly Montaigne and Swift, but also Bartolome de las Casas and Jean de Lery, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and travel-writers and ethnographers from Columbus and Vespucci to Bougainville and Cook. Behind all these stand those mass-catastrophes in Genesis, the Deluge and the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, with their grim and quizzical relation to the mass-slaughters of human history, culminating in the Second World War."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12165959.
- catalog coverage "Ireland Foreign public opinion, European.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""When we say certain people 'ought to be shot', or exterminated from 'the face of the earth', we usually do so in the knowledge that we will not be thought to mean it literally. It is a figure of speech, partially sanitized by the conventions of social usage. We also create myths, stories, histories of which the same might be said. The victims in these stories may be whole peoples or groups of people, or even the whole of humanity, as when God said He would 'destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth'. The phrasing reverberates throughout scripture and human history. It has been applied to the people to Israel and to their enemies, to conquered savages, the Irish, the poor, and the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Its usage has ranged from the deadliest genocidal intentions, to satirical threats, fictional fantasies and colloquial expressions of undeadly irritation. We 'mean' it, don't mean it, and don't not mean it, and the demarcations are often unclear." "God, Gulliver, and Genocide explores the range of aggressions which inhabit the space between such figures of speech and their implementation, from the book of Genesis to the present day, but more especially in the period between the conquest to the Americas and the end of World War II. It examines a wide variety of authors and voices, chiefly Montaigne and Swift, but also Bartolome de las Casas and Jean de Lery, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and travel-writers and ethnographers from Columbus and Vespucci to Bougainville and Cook. Behind all these stand those mass-catastrophes in Genesis, the Deluge and the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, with their grim and quizzical relation to the mass-slaughters of human history, culminating in the Second World War."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-379) and index.".
- catalog description "Indians and Irish from Montaigne to Swift -- The savage with hanging breasts : Gulliver, female yahoos, and "racism" -- Killing the poor : an Anglo-Irish theme? -- God, Gulliver, and genocide.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 401 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "God, Gulliver, and genocide.".
- catalog identifier "0198184255".
- catalog isFormatOf "God, Gulliver, and genocide.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "God, Gulliver, and genocide.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Foreign public opinion, European.".
- catalog subject "823/.5 21".
- catalog subject "Aliens in literature.".
- catalog subject "Difference (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Irish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Genocide Public opinion History.".
- catalog subject "Genocide in literature.".
- catalog subject "God in literature.".
- catalog subject "Indians in literature.".
- catalog subject "Irish in literature.".
- catalog subject "Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.".
- catalog subject "PR3724.G8 R38 2001".
- catalog subject "Poor in literature.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Racism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Religion and literature.".
- catalog subject "Satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.".
- catalog subject "Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Modest proposal.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Indians and Irish from Montaigne to Swift -- The savage with hanging breasts : Gulliver, female yahoos, and "racism" -- Killing the poor : an Anglo-Irish theme? -- God, Gulliver, and genocide.".
- catalog title "God, Gulliver, and genocide : barbarism and the European imagination, 1492-1945 / Claude Rawson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".