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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Padget, Martin. "Cultural Geographies: Travel Writing in the Southwest, 1869-1897," Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, February 1993. Advisor: Michael Davisdon/Nicole Tonkovich (9, 16, 6)
This dissertation provides a critical understanding of Anglo-American travel writing as it was used as a primary means of making sense of the U.S. conquest of the Southwest in the late nineteenth century. Taking the region as a meeting ground of diverse cultures, the study asks: How did Anglo-American narratives of exploration and travel, as well as novels and more “scientific” ethnological studies of indigenous peoples, construct the cultural geography of the Southwest? The dissertation examines the hierarchies of cultural value created in travel writing through writers’ perceptions of race, class, gender, nationality, and ethnicity in the region. Individual chapters are on John Wesley Powell, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
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