226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the European vision of America is merely a distorted view of some extra-European reality. He relates the way... Read more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Otherwise 1. Imaginary worlds 2. Popular culture and the internal other 3. The monstrous human races 4. The monstrous human races of America 5. A monstrous idiom: articulation 6. A monstrous idiom: punctuation 7. Eurocentrism and ethnocentrism 8. The elementary structures of alterity Bibliography Name index Subject index
Biography
Peter Mason
