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  1. Short nights of the Shadow Catcher
    the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
    Autor*in: Egan, Timothy
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston [u.a.]

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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780618969029
    Schlagworte: Geschichte; Indianer; Photographers; Indians of North America; Documentary photography; HISTORY / United States / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers; HISTORY / Native American; Ritus <Motiv>; Indianer <Motiv>; Dokumentarfilm; Schallaufzeichnung; Fotografie
    Weitere Schlagworte: Curtis, Edward S (1868-1952); Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952)
    Umfang: 370 S., zahlr. Ill.
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    "Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance--six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise--his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements."-- Provided by publisher.

  2. Tensions in the American Dream
    rhetoric, reverie, or reality
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Temple Univ. Press., Philadelphia, Pa. [u.a.]

    "Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The... mehr

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    "Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality. Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?"..

     

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