Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Herausgeber: Samuels, Shirley

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Produktbeschreibung

Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States presents twelve essays by cultural critics that expose fraught relations of identity and race in architecture, scientific discourse, art, photography, music, and theater, juxtaposed with prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781498573139
• ISBN-10: 1498573134
• Artikelnr.: 67612735

Autorenporträt

Shirley Samuels is professor of English and American studies at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Articulate Spaces
Chapter 1: The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and
Octagons
Irene Cheng
Chapter 2: Arctic Whiteness: William Bradford, Herman Melville, and the
Invisible Spheres of Fright
Wyn Kelley
Chapter 3: Music and Military Movement: Racial Representation
Brigitte Fielder
Chapter 4: Black Faces Etched in White Stone: Black Feminist Visuality in
Edmonia Lewis's Sculpture
Kelli Morgan
Chapter 5: Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empiricism of Holmesian
Stereoscopic Sight
Cheryl Spinner
Chapter 6: Between Word and Image: The Use of Humor, Satire, and Caricature
in Early Abolitionist Political Cartoons
Martha Cutter
Part 2: Democratic Visions
Chapter 7: Seeing Irony in Barnum's America: Anti-Slavery Humor in Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Adena Spingarn
Chapter 8: Babo's Skull, Aranda's Skeleton: Visualizing the Sentimentality
of Race Science in Benito Cereno
Christine Yao
Chapter 9: Melville's Greens: Color Theory and Democracy
Jennifer Greiman
Chapter 10: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford's
Progress of Civilization
Kirsten Pai Buick
Chapter 11: Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of
Democracy in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
Kya Mangrum
Chapter 12: Cotton Babies: Mama's Maybe: Kara Walker's Marvels of Invention
Janet Neary