Indians Illustrated

The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press

AvJohn M Coward

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

284 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet

Fler format och utgåvor

Inbunden

1 386 kr

Häftad

368 kr

Beskrivning

After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie''s Illustrated Newspaper and Harper''s Weekly . In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into categories that drew from venerable "good" Indian and "bad" Indian stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward''s examples show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans'' cultural values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites used to represent--and marginalize--native cultures already engaged in a twilight struggle against inexorable westward expansion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252098529
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90.

Recensioner i media

"Indians Illustrated is a good read that strongly contributes to our knowledge of American Indians' depictions and stereotyping while bringing the world of nineteenth-century printed press into our own homes." --American Indian Quarterly "In Indians Illustrated, Coward not only has written a book that clearly and decisively achieves the primary objective of providing a history of the development and consequences of Native American stereotypes, but he also provides a framework useful for anyone who seeks to understand stereotyping of any group in American media."--Journalism History "Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes."--Jhistory

Innehållsförteckning

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Illustrating Indians in the Pictorial PressChapter 1. Posing the Indian: Native American Portraits in the Illustrated PressChapter 2. Illustrating Indian Lives: Difference and Deficiency in Native American ImageryChapter 3. The Princess and the Squaw: The Construction of Native American Women in the PictorialChapter 4. Making Images on the Indian Frontier: The Adventures of Special Artist Theodore DavisChapter 5. Illustrating the Indian Wars: Fact, Fantasy, and IdeologyChapter 6. Making Sense of Savagery: Native American Cartoons in the Daily GraphicChapter 7. Remington's Indian Illustrations: Race, Realism, and Pictorial JournalismChapter 8. Visualizing Race: Native American and African American Imagery in Frank Leslie'sConclusion: Illustrating Race, Demonstrating DifferenceNotesIndex