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Tables of Contents for God, Gulliver, and Genocide
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xv
Note on Texts and Editions Used
xvii
Introduction
1
16
Indians and Irish from Montaigne to Swift
17
75
Catalogues of Conquest
17
7
Unspeaking the Unspeakable
24
9
`Ils se sont entremangez'
33
9
Good and Bad Indians
42
13
Utopians, Tupinamba, Houyhnhnms, Yahoos
55
7
Gunpowder Magic
62
7
Fynes Moryson and the Intelligencer
69
10
Indians, Irish, and the Scythian Myth
79
13
The Savage with Hanging Breasts: Gulliver, Female Yahoos, and `Racism'
92
91
`A young Female Yahoo . . . inflamed by Desire'
92
6
The Savage with Hanging Breasts
98
10
Hottentots and Irish
108
5
The Hottentot Venus
113
17
The Bum Shop
130
8
Matings with Strangers
138
13
Going Native
151
11
Apes and Angels
162
13
Post-colonial Couplings
175
8
Killing the Poor: An Anglo-Irish Theme?
183
73
`I look forward eagerly to their extermination'
183
8
`The worst of our crimes is poverty'
191
12
Dreams of the Beggar as Nobleman
203
6
Beggars and Hottentots, or Exterminate all the Brutes
209
15
Badging, Branding, and Castration
224
8
`The old sow that eats her farrow': The Beggarly Kingdom from Spenser to Joyce
232
5
The `Whole' People
237
8
A Flayed Woman, and Brother Footman going to be Hanged
245
4
They Ought to be Shot: The `desperate Experiment' of Figures of Speech
249
7
God, Gulliver, and Genocide
256
55
Yahoos, Helots, and Extermination
256
10
Gulliver and Biblical Survivors
266
9
`With the Skins of Yahoos, well stitched together'
275
12
The Reprieve of Castration and other Leniencies
287
11
Ten Righteous Men: Abraham Haggles with God
298
13
Notes
311
70
Index
381