Veggie Numbers by Paul Vischer
As Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey, explicating the novel's significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters' landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe's story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe's enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.Phil Vischer is the creator of the groundbreaking children's series VeggieTales, which has sold over thirteen million books and seventy million videos and is watched by a third of all American households with young children. What's In the Bible? was also created by Phil. Phil and his wife Lisa (aka Junior Asparagus) live in the Chicago region. They have three adult children, two dogs, and 2.5 acres on which Phil enjoys mowing while pondering creative ideas.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780849914881 |
| ISBN 10 | 0849914884 |
| Title | Veggie Numbers |
| Author | Paul Vischer |
| Series | Veggiecational S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Send The Light |
| Year published | 1997-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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