{"title":"Christa J Olson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"american-magnitude-book-christa-j-olson-9780814214831","title":"American Magnitude","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner, 2022 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At a moment in US politics when racially motivated nationalism, shifting relations with Latin America, and anxiety over national futures intertwine, understanding the long history of American preoccupation with magnitude and how it underpins national identity is vitally important. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Magnitude\u003c\/i\u003e, Christa J. Olson tracks the visual history of US appeals to grandeur, import, and consequence (\u003ci\u003emegethos\u003c\/i\u003e), focusing on images that use the wider Americas to establish US character. Her sources--including lithographs from the US-Mexican War, pre-Civil War paintings of the Andes, photo essays of Machu Picchu, and WWII-era films promoting hemispheric unity--span from 1845 to 1950 but resonate into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlson demonstrates how those crafting the appeals that feed the US national imaginary--artists, scientists, journalists, diplomats, and others--have invited US audiences to view Latin America as a foil for the greatness of their own nation and encouraged white US publics in particular to see themselves as especially American among Americans. She reveals how each instance of visual rhetoric relies upon the eyes of others to instantiate its magnitude--and falters as some viewers look askance instead. The result is the possibility of a post-magnitude United States: neither great nor failed, but modest, partial, and imperfect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52410048545041,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410049200401,"sku":"NLS9780814214831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780814214831.jpg?v=1758776614"},{"product_id":"american-magnitude-book-christa-j-olson-9780814258118","title":"American Magnitude","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner, 2022 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At a moment in US politics when racially motivated nationalism, shifting relations with Latin America, and anxiety over national futures intertwine, understanding the long history of American preoccupation with magnitude and how it underpins national identity is vitally important. 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She reveals how each instance of visual rhetoric relies upon the eyes of others to instantiate its magnitude--and falters as some viewers look askance instead. The result is the possibility of a post-magnitude United States: neither great nor failed, but modest, partial, and imperfect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52613890179345,"sku":"NLS9780814258118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780814258118.jpg?v=1761519693"},{"product_id":"constitutive-visions-book-christa-j-olson-9780271061993","title":"Constitutive Visions","description":"In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador's large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated during Ecuador's long process of nation formation, envisioning the nation in speeches, periodicals, and artworks. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador's nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53181244801297,"sku":"NLS9780271061993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271061993.jpg?v=1772237247"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-christa-j-olson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}