Postwestern Horizons #: A Planetary Lens

The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing

Postwestern Horizons #: A Planetary Lens
Audrey Goodman
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 346pg
1 Oct 2021 US
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9781496225139
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A Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate the sites where stories resonate, and to listen to western women' s voices. From foundational California photographers Anne Brigman and Alma Lavenson to contemporary Native poets and writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Joy Harjo, women artists have used photographs to generate stories and to map routes across time and place. A Planetary Lens illuminates the richness and theoretical sophistication of such composite texts. Looking beyond the ideologies of wilderness, migration, and progress that have shaped settler and popular conceptions of the region, A Planetary Lens shows how many artists gather and assemble images and texts to reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U. S. West. Based on extensive research into the production, publication, and circulation of women' s photo-texts, A Planetary Lens offers a fresh perspective on the entangled and gendered histories of western American photography and literature and new models for envisioning regional relations.

A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing

"A Planetary Lens demonstrates a new reading strategy that will serve us well as we consider the deep and ongoing effects of patriarchy and colonization on the way women and others produce creative texts and understand place. . . . Goodman' s beautiful book reveals how re-storying colonized spaces is crucial for bodies and land. "-Gioia Woods, editor of Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West "A Planetary Lens advances several important scholarly conversations including environmental justice, feminist critical regionalism, local and global Indigenous studies, western American literary studies, and material ecocriticism. Goodman' s elegantly written study draws together texts from a broad array of perspectives to interrogate how artists combine image and written texts in ways that revise and reorient conceptions of region, self, and storytelling. . . . Lucid and persuasive. "-Amy T. Hamilton, author of Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature
Audrey Goodman is a professor of English at Georgia State University. She is the author of Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth-Century Southwest and Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781496225139
Published: 1 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 346

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