Allegories of America

Allegories of America
Title Allegories of America PDF eBook
Author Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 246
Release 2018-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501726234

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Allegories of Encounter

Allegories of Encounter
Title Allegories of Encounter PDF eBook
Author Andrew Newman
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 237
Release 2018-11-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1469643464

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Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.

Allegory in America

Allegory in America
Title Allegory in America PDF eBook
Author D. Madsen
Publisher Springer
Pages 203
Release 1995-12-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0230379931

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Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.

The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature

The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
Title The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature PDF eBook
Author Cindy Weinstein
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 282
Release 1995-01-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521470544

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This book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the debates about symbol and allegory, and Cindy Weinstein contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth and consequence than has previously been implied.

Bodies and Maps

Bodies and Maps
Title Bodies and Maps PDF eBook
Author Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher BRILL
Pages 435
Release 2020-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 9004438033

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An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

Allegories of Cinema

Allegories of Cinema
Title Allegories of Cinema PDF eBook
Author David E. James
Publisher
Pages 388
Release 1989
Genre Experimental films
ISBN 9780691047553

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Discusses avant garde films produced during the sixties, and considers the work of Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol

Black Space

Black Space
Title Black Space PDF eBook
Author Adilifu Nama
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 213
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0292778767

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Winner, Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2008 Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Setting his study against the backdrop of America's ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and "otherness"; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking. The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.