1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454328003321

Autore

Meehan Sean Ross <1969->

Titolo

Mediating American autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / / Sean Ross Meehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8262-6640-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/492

Soggetti

American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and photography - United States - History - 19th century

Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism

Photography - United States - History - 19th century

Visual perception in literature

Photography in literature

Autobiography

Self-realization in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452448903321

Autore

Tyner James A. <1966->

Titolo

Genocide and the geographical imagination [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in Germany, China, and Cambodia / / James A. Tyner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012

ISBN

1-280-69979-5

9786613676771

1-4422-0900-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

364.15/1

Soggetti

Genocide - Germany - History

Genocide - China - History

Genocide - Cambodia - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Ch01. The Spatiality of Life and Death; Ch02. The State Must Own Death: Germany; Ch03. Starving for the State: China; Ch04. Normalizing the State: Cambodia; Ch05. Everyday Death and the State; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China's Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases provides insight into the larger questions of sovereignty and state policies that determine who will live and who will die. Specifically, he explores the government practices that result in genocide and how they are informed by the calculation and valuation of life-and death. A geograp



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791004003321

Titolo

The age of Asian migration . Volume 1 : Continuity, diversity, and susceptibility / / edited by Yuk Wah Chan, David Haines and Jonathan H. X. Lee ; contributors Takeshi Akiba [and twenty three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6569-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 pages)

Disciplina

304.8095

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - Asia

Immigrants - Asia

Asia Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph