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Indians Illustrated
The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial PressHistory of Communication
22,42 € |
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Verlag: | University Of Illinois Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 30.06.2016 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780252098529 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "e;buckskinned braves"e; and "e;Indian princesses"e; proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into categories that drew from venerable "e;good"e; Indian and "e;bad"e; Indian stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward's examples show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans' cultural values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites used to represent--and marginalize--native cultures already engaged in a twilight struggle against inexorable westward expansion.