27.220, Books: Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor: O’Rourke

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:17:18
From: Simon Reber [S.Reber at peterlang.com]
Subject: Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor: O’Rourke

Title: Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor 
Subtitle: Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It,
and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slavery’s History 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?312517 

Author: David K. O’Rourke

Hardback: ISBN:  9781433125171 Pages: 172 Price: U.S. $ 78.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433125171 Pages: 172 Price: U.K. £ 49.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433125171 Pages: 172 Price: Europe EURO 60.73

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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