Looking for America by Ardis Cameron
Explores the 'visual' in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. This book covers important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of 'others'.
“This collection is an invigorating, even stunning, revelationI left it feeling as if I had learned a new language. Congratulations to Ardis Cameron for the creative insight with which she has woven together an argument for the indispensable value of ‘looking’ into the past.” Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
“This book illuminates the role of the visual in constructions of American national identity. Most impressive is the demonstration that vision itself is not transparent, but an instrument that shapes, even as it is shaped by, relations of power.” Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Ardis Cameron is Professor of American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine. She is author of Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring of Lawrence, 1860–1912 (1993). She received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her work in progress, Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a Big Book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405114660 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405114665 |
| Title | Looking for America |
| Author | Ardis Cameron |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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