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Synopsis
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.