The Resource Servants, masters and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history, David K. O'Rourke
Servants, masters and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history, David K. O'Rourke
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- Summary
- This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and servants from society to society. In the interaction between colonial powers and conquered peoples, O’Rourke also describes how the European colonial nations imposed their own languages, social metaphors, and utopian views as a way to disconnect those they conquered from their historic roots and re-imagine, redefine, rename, and map them into new lands and places inhabited by inferior peoples needing control by masters who understand how they should now live. O’Rourke begins by describing how this rewriting of history is not new. He calls on well-established classical and biblical language studies to describe how older and historic oral histories and texts were rewritten to reshape the past to fit new and more useful views. He explains how rhetoric, metaphor, and pseudo-sciences were used to change Europe’s earlier contracted and coerced labor in colonial America into the chattel slavery that became the hallmark of the new and growing United States. O’Rourke also describes how the dominant culture’s current values, foundational metaphors, and sacred notions were woven together into linguistic shelters that served to enshrine the repressive process from questioning and dissent. These same linguistic elements were then used after emancipation to maintain and sanitize the remains of the slave system by presenting it as a benign institution. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 171 pages
- Contents
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- Part One. RHETORIC AND THE ARTS OF COERCION
- Words, Methods, and Contexts
- Masters and Servants : Whence the Words?
- Retro-writing History
- In Praise of Modern Mastery
- and its Invention
- The Root of our Slavery Rhetoric
- Part Two. THE GRAND RHETORIC OF EMPIRE
- The Arrogant Rhetoric of Repression
- The Mapping of Colonial Rhetoric
- Colonial Rhetoric and the Grand Utopian Vision
- The Coffle March
- Isbn
- 9781433125171
- Label
- Servants, masters and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history
- Title
- Servants, masters and the coercion of labor
- Title remainder
- inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history
- Statement of responsibility
- David K. O'Rourke
- Subject
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- Master and servant -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Slaveholders -- Southern States -- Language | History
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Slavery -- Southern States -- Historiography
- Social values -- Southern States -- History
- Forced labor -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and servants from society to society. In the interaction between colonial powers and conquered peoples, O’Rourke also describes how the European colonial nations imposed their own languages, social metaphors, and utopian views as a way to disconnect those they conquered from their historic roots and re-imagine, redefine, rename, and map them into new lands and places inhabited by inferior peoples needing control by masters who understand how they should now live. O’Rourke begins by describing how this rewriting of history is not new. He calls on well-established classical and biblical language studies to describe how older and historic oral histories and texts were rewritten to reshape the past to fit new and more useful views. He explains how rhetoric, metaphor, and pseudo-sciences were used to change Europe’s earlier contracted and coerced labor in colonial America into the chattel slavery that became the hallmark of the new and growing United States. O’Rourke also describes how the dominant culture’s current values, foundational metaphors, and sacred notions were woven together into linguistic shelters that served to enshrine the repressive process from questioning and dissent. These same linguistic elements were then used after emancipation to maintain and sanitize the remains of the slave system by presenting it as a benign institution. --
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- O'Rourke, David K
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics
- Series volume
- Vol. 91
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Plantation life
- Forced labor
- Master and servant
- Slaveholders
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric
- Social values
- Slavery
- Label
- Servants, masters and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history, David K. O'Rourke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index
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- volume
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- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
- Part One. RHETORIC AND THE ARTS OF COERCION -- Words, Methods, and Contexts -- Masters and Servants : Whence the Words? -- Retro-writing History -- In Praise of Modern Mastery -- and its Invention -- The Root of our Slavery Rhetoric -- Part Two. THE GRAND RHETORIC OF EMPIRE -- The Arrogant Rhetoric of Repression -- The Mapping of Colonial Rhetoric -- Colonial Rhetoric and the Grand Utopian Vision -- The Coffle March
- Control code
- ocn929985225
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 171 pages
- Isbn
- 9781433125171
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015029830
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)929985225
- Label
- Servants, masters and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history, David K. O'Rourke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part One. RHETORIC AND THE ARTS OF COERCION -- Words, Methods, and Contexts -- Masters and Servants : Whence the Words? -- Retro-writing History -- In Praise of Modern Mastery -- and its Invention -- The Root of our Slavery Rhetoric -- Part Two. THE GRAND RHETORIC OF EMPIRE -- The Arrogant Rhetoric of Repression -- The Mapping of Colonial Rhetoric -- Colonial Rhetoric and the Grand Utopian Vision -- The Coffle March
- Control code
- ocn929985225
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 171 pages
- Isbn
- 9781433125171
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015029830
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)929985225
Subject
- Master and servant -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Slaveholders -- Southern States -- Language | History
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Slavery -- Southern States -- Historiography
- Social values -- Southern States -- History
- Forced labor -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
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