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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy
Rebecca Mark
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Description for Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; JFD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America’s addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating a language that is severed from material reality. Without the mediating touchstones of body and nature, creative representations of our history have been allowed to spin into dangerous abstraction.
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From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America’s addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating a language that is severed from material reality. Without the mediating touchstones of body and nature, creative representations of our history have been allowed to spin into dangerous abstraction.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936260
SKU
V9780813936260
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Ref
99-28
About Rebecca Mark
Rebecca Mark is Professor of English at Tulane University, USA and the author of The Dragon’s Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Golden Apples’ and the coeditor of The South: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.
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