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Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital
Eva Cherniavsky
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Description for Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
An exploration of race, Hollywood, and the commodification of the body
Incorporations offers a new way of thinking about issues of race, bodies, and commodity culture. Moving beyond the study of identity and difference in media, Eva Cherniavsky asserts that race can be understood as a sign of the body’s relation to capital.
In Incorporations, Cherniavsky interrogates the interplay of nationalism, colonialism, and capitalism in the production of racial embodiment. Testing the links between race and capital, Incorporations examines how media culture transmutes white bodies into commodity-images in such films as Blonde Venus, A Touch of Evil, and Fargo, in the ... Read moreWorking with the tools of critical race theory as well as postcolonial and cultural studies, Cherniavsky demonstrates how representations of racial embodiment have evolved, and suggests that “race” is the condition of exchangeable bodies under capital. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816646050
SKU
V9780816646050
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About Eva Cherniavsky
Eva Cherniavsky is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Washington. She is the author of That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in Nineteenthth-Century America.
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