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Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest (Culture Politics & the Built Environment) - Hardcover

Buch 5 von 20: Culture Politics & the Built Environment

Brown, Nicholas A.; Kanouse, Sarah E.

 
9780822944379: Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0822944375 ISBN 13: 9780822944379
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,” surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre.
Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the significance of the imagery. Contributors include  tribal officials, scholars, activists, and others including George Thurman, the principal chief of the Sac and Fox Nation and a direct descendant of Black Hawk. These image-text encounters offer visions of both the past and present and the shaping of memory through landscapes that reach beyond their material presence into spaces of cultural and political power. As we witness, the evocation of Black Hawk serves as a painful reminder, a forced deference, and a veiled attempt to wipe away the guilt of past atrocities. Re-Collecting Black Hawk also points toward the future. By simultaneously unsettling and reconstructing the midwestern landscape, it envisions new modes of peaceful and just coexistence and suggests alternative ways of inhabiting the landscape.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas A. Brown is a visiting assistant professor in the American Indian and Native Studies program at the University of Iowa.

Sarah E. Kanouse is an associate professor in the School of Art and Art history at the University of Iowa.

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822944375
ISBN 13 
9780822944379
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
279
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