Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

11 reviews

myrrk's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, and Child death

jeddicat's review

Graphic with horrific violence against women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Colonisation, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Murder, Death, Child death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Violence, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Classism, and Blood

gfmetz's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Child death, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Slavery

krysophylax's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is not something I would normally choose to read, but I gave it a chance as I enjoy Native American culture. It was about as captivating and informative as I can imagine a book on this topic could be. Impressive, enlightening and highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Child death

lareads36's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

I can see how this popular culture book could reach more people than historical monographs. 

Overall the author recounts and makes the history come alive. At one point though, I felt he was renunerating atrocities on both sides too much.

the sixth impaled baby didn't have as much impact as the first five.

 

I will say however, I had been led to believe this was less history and more fiction. Inside not feeling that way reading it. Given my research, he glossed over a couple of points but didn't embellish. He does mention that Goodnight was the sole proprietor of the canyon when we know he was a part owner with financial backing from JA. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Slavery, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Gore, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Child death

brandiereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Slavery, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Colonisation, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

emmiestrick's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An excellent account of one of the most impressive original American cultures and its people. A necessary read for anyone interested in the true history of this land. Engaging, inspiring, and deeply saddening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Rape

readingwithrebeccanicole's review

informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Kidnapping and Violence

Minor: Child death and Rape

pirateenthusiast's review

1.25

A well researched book. I learned a lot, but this is where the positives end. The language used in this book is repeatedly and horrendously racist. I'm not sure if this was the authors intention or not, but he portrays the Comanches and Native Americans as a whole as "backward stone age hunters". Gwynne claims to be providing an unbiased neutral book that shows both sides in an accurate light. He certainly succeeds in not straying away from the violence of the Comanches with his brutal and graphic descriptions, yet when he describes the violence of the other side, the terms are much more vague, giving the reader the wrong impression. Here is a list of words used in this book and the frequency that they appeared.

Native: 32
Indian(s): 1,177
Savage: 28
Primitive: 19
Redskin: 3
Squaw: 25
Indigenous: 1

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Torture, War, Colonisation, Gore, Kidnapping, and Genocide

Moderate: Rape and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death

siiriainen's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

1.0

A history of the genocide of America's indigenous people in the West in which the author continuously uses racist and antiquated terms to describe the indigenous groups he's writing about, the most obvious being his chosen term of "indian", but also describing the women as "squaws", calling them prehistoric and savage and so on. 

I'm not against him describing the violence that the Comanche perpetrated in the West against other indigenous groups and white settlers, that is well documented. But to use colonizing and racist language when describing it is pretty gross. Shocked this was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Rape