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Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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2019
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Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as the technologies of performance including theater and music. Recent work in critical theories of vision, technology, and the production of ideas about racial discourse has emphasized the inextricability of photography with notions of race and American identity. The collected essays provide a vivid sense of how imagery about race appears in the formative period of the nineteenth-century United States.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7311-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7312-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product Type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Ch01. The Racial Geometry of the Nation No access
Ch02. Arctic Whiteness No access
Ch03. Music and Military Movement No access
Ch04. Black Faces Etched in White Stone No access
Ch05. Enchanted Optics No access
Ch06. Between Word and Image No access
Ch07. Seeing Irony in Barnum’s America No access
Ch08. Babo’s Skull, Aranda’s Skeleton No access
Ch09. Melville’s Greens No access
Ch10. Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford’s No access
