Masks of Difference : Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art Paperback / softback
by David (University of Leeds) Richards
Part of the Cultural Margins series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, 19 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/03/1995
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- ISBN:9780521479721
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, 19 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/03/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521479721
