Writing others’ voices lets nationalists discover beliefs already present in those voices

Evidence

All the efforts to include the voices of others thus enable the author to know his own language “as it is perceived in someone else’s language, [and thereby to come] to know one’s own belief system in someone else’s system.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 105

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Nationalists borrow others’ sacralized land narratives as strategic templates — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 184; Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice; Nationalist founding myths are actively imagined into a people’s authentic self-understanding. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 480
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Nationalists borrow others’ sacralized land narratives as strategic templates — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 184; Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice; Nationalist founding myths are actively imagined into a people’s authentic self-understanding. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 480