Mismeasuring the Other:Scientific Racism in Beloved and The Voyage of the Narwhal
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Mismeasuring the Other : Scientific Racism in Beloved and The Voyage of the Narwhal Prominent writers today have recognized the connection between the form of scientific racism represented by craniology and the more overt violence of nineteenth-century slavery. In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison portrays the atrocious conditions of slavery and the dehumanization human beings suffer when they are objectified and turned into possessions. The Schoolteacher, an inhumane and sadistic slave-owner, employs the pseudo-scientific discipline of craniometry to Sethe, Paul D, and the other slaves at Sweet Home. By treating them as mere animals, or worse, as specimens to prove his racial scientific theory, the Schoolteacher tries to break his slaves’ spirit and willpower. Similarly, Andrea Barrett tackles the thorny discourse of craniology in The Voyage of the Narwhal. Set in the mid-nineteenth century during the heyday of craniology, The Voyage of the Narwhal denounces the way in which the “scientific” discourse of craniology justified reducing people to crania specimen for economic and scientific benefits.
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