Representing Others: White Views of Indigenous Peoples (Exeter Studies in American and Commonwealth Arts) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859893545 ISBN 13: 9780859893541

Verlag: University of Exeter Press - IPSUK, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples. As they were seen by incoming whites who were themselves strangers to the land, they most often appeared incomprehensible, threatening, 'Other'. The analyses in this book go beyond simply asking questions about the 'accuracy' or otherwise of a work's representation of the culture under discussion. Although the seven authors conform to no single position and adopt a variety of critical approaches, they share a common concern. These essays all propose that if we are to use our own terms to speak of another culture, we must become aware of the problems involved in the act of representation itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mick Gidley is Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0859893545
• ISBN 13: 9780859893541
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 163
• Herausgeber: Gidley Mick
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland