Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art - Couverture souple

Richards, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 052147972X ISBN 13 : 9780521479721

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races as a form of textual practice.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

David Richards here examines historical anthropological discourse - specifically writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races - as a form of textual practice. He analyses various kinds of 'naturalistic' representations, both artistic and literary, of colonised cultures, revealing the ways in which such representations betray their own subject-positions and fail - from our modern perspective - to act as the objective 'mirrors on nature' that they might originally have purported to be. Masks of Difference provides original and informative readings of individual sites of colonisation, including Florida (1564–91), and Scotland (1814), together with extended surveys; what emerges is a composite picture of anthropological representation as a textual genre in its own right, embracing literature, literary theory, and colonial/postcolonial studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052147972X
• ISBN 13: 9780521479721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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