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Author : Rebecca Mark
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936276
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Ersatz America written by Rebecca Mark and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America’s addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating language that is severed from material reality. Without the mediating touchstones of body and nature, creative representations of our history have been allowed to spin into dangerous abstraction. Other scholars have addressed the artificial qualities of the collective American memory, but what distinguishes Ersatz America is that it does more than simply deconstruct--it provides a map for regeneration. Mark contends that throughout American history, citizen artists have responded to the deadly memorialization of the past with artistic expressions and visual artifacts that exist outside the realm of official language, creating a counter narrative. These examples of what she calls visceral graphism are embodied in and connected to the human experience of indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, and silenced women, giving form to the unspeakable. We must learn, Mark suggests, to read the markings of these works against the iconic national myths. In doing so, we can shift from being mesmerized by the monumentalism of this national mirage to embracing the regeneration and recovery of our human history.

Ersatz America

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Author : Rebecca Mark
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936276
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Ersatz America written by Rebecca Mark and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America’s addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating language that is severed from material reality. Without the mediating touchstones of body and nature, creative representations of our history have been allowed to spin into dangerous abstraction. Other scholars have addressed the artificial qualities of the collective American memory, but what distinguishes Ersatz America is that it does more than simply deconstruct--it provides a map for regeneration. Mark contends that throughout American history, citizen artists have responded to the deadly memorialization of the past with artistic expressions and visual artifacts that exist outside the realm of official language, creating a counter narrative. These examples of what she calls visceral graphism are embodied in and connected to the human experience of indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, and silenced women, giving form to the unspeakable. We must learn, Mark suggests, to read the markings of these works against the iconic national myths. In doing so, we can shift from being mesmerized by the monumentalism of this national mirage to embracing the regeneration and recovery of our human history.

America's Alternative Religions

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Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438413114
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book America's Alternative Religions written by Timothy Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials as history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. The chapters of the book were written by experts who study the movements they have written about.

Sophie Discovers Amerika

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Author : Rob McFarland
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135863
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Sophie Discovers Amerika written by Rob McFarland and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography.

The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992

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Author : Richard T. Arndt
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412824248
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992 written by Richard T. Arndt and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fulbright Education Exchange program has given American and foreignstudents and scholars transnational educational experiences in every country in the world.The Fulbright Difference brings together twenty-seven ofthese participants, along with ten foreign alumni, in a collective effort to stimulate greaterawareness of the depth of the Fulbright achievement. Fulbright scholars show how the benefits oftheir participation extend well beyond their foreign study. Following an earlier volume,The Fulbright Experience, this second volume exploresissues of importance for historians of society, politics, culture, intellect, and diplomacy, aswell as administrators of the Fulbright program and policymakers in all nations. The collectiveportrait is a hard look at the overseas experience and its implications for publicpolicy.

The New Deal

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Author : Kiran Klaus Patel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691149127
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The New Deal written by Kiran Klaus Patel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe-not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America's colonies-all had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates.By avoiding the distortions of American exceptionalism, Kiran Klaus Patel shows how America's reaction to the Great Depression connected it to the wider world. Among much else, the book explains why the New Deal had enormous repercussions on China; why Franklin D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Sweden-but ignored similar schemes in Japan.Ultimately, Patel argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony in the postwar era, making this history essential for understanding both the New Deal and America's rise to global leadership.

Eating Asian America

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Author : Robert Ji-Song Ku
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479869252
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Eating Asian America written by Robert Ji-Song Ku and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shaped Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food. Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness. It does so by bringing together twenty scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to inaugurate a new turn in food studies: the refusal to yield to a superficial multiculturalism that naively celebrates difference and reconciliation through the pleasures of food and eating. By focusing on multi-sited struggles across various spaces and times, the contributors to this anthology bring into focus the potent forces of class, racial, ethnic, sexual and gender inequalities that pervade and persist in the production of Asian American culinary and alimentary practices, ideas, and images. This is the first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.

Zaprudered

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Author : Øyvind Vågnes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742584
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Zaprudered written by Øyvind Vågnes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, 2012 As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Øyvind Vågnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vågnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11. Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination.

Scientific American

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Scientific American Monthly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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The American Whitaker Almanac and Encyclopedia for ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Alternative Perspective on the President's Strategy for Iraq

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race

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Author : Harriet Pollack
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034432X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race written by Harriet Pollack and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness. Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel, Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in America and that she connected this history to lives on either side of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack, Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.

Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc

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Author : American Society of Naval Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Eudora Welty and Mystery

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Author : Jacob Agner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496842723
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Eudora Welty and Mystery written by Jacob Agner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime. Put another way, Welty often creates her stories’ secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions. Some of these new readings continue Welty’s investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race—outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre’s greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald’s novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its “underground woman,” its unexpected “sleeping beauty.”

Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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