Sites unseen: architecture, race, and American literature
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1. Verfasser: Gleason, William A. 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press ©2011
Schriftenreihe:America and the long 19th century
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns -- Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space -- Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories -- Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres -- Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan -- Coda: Black cabin, white house
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and-although we have not yet understood this clearly-race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 271 pages)
ISBN:0814732461
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