Introduction

In their long history of displacing the indigenous peoples and settling on their lands, Euroamericans have paired the project of radically transforming the environment with the apparently contradictory work of stabilizing it in cultural representations. Both are means for a nation of immigrants to...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda,
Auteurs principaux: Harding, Wendy, Murphy, Gretchen
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Miranda 2015
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:In their long history of displacing the indigenous peoples and settling on their lands, Euroamericans have paired the project of radically transforming the environment with the apparently contradictory work of stabilizing it in cultural representations. Both are means for a nation of immigrants to appropriate the land and to inhabit it. The essays collected in this special issue of Miranda explore some of the directions this project has taken in the realm of cultural production. We take as a...