
Visual Representations of Native Americans
Transnational Contexts and Perspectives
Karsten Fitz(Editor)
Universitätsverlag Winter
1st Edition
Published on 13. April 2012
Book
Hardback
VI, 302 pages
978-3-8253-6018-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together interdisciplinary research that attends to local specificity as well as the global - transnational - circulation of a visual image repertoire of Native Americans. Located at the intersection between Visual Culture Studies and American Studies, the contributions gathered here are investigating the transnational dimensions of the creation, production, circulation, consumption, projection, reception, and perception of visual representations of Native Americans from colonial times to the 21st century. "The Indian" as image, stereotype, icon, and metaphor was - and often still is - fabricated in a transnational sphere of influence and needs to be read within the respective national, cultural, historical, and political contexts in which it was/is produced. Both, the cultural functions of such visual appropriations for those who construct them as well as the creative responses to these fabrications by Native American visual artists are scrutinized in this collection.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
81 Abbildungen
81 Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Weight
444 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8253-6018-4 (9783825360184)
Schweitzer Classification