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Deconstructing America: Representations of the Other: Routledge Revivals

Autor Peter Mason
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2026
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 in which Europe tended to see the inhabitants of South America as monstrous figures to a longstanding European tradition on the ‘Plinian’ human races, and goes on to point out that the existence of similar representations among contemporary Amerindian peoples calls into question the extent to which ethnocentrism is an exclusively European idea. Drawing on anthropological, literary and philosophical studies, he shows how European representations of America constitute a cultural monologue which tells more about the Old World than the New. This book will be a stimulating reading for all those working in the fields of symbolic and cultural anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, Latin America, structuralism and deconstruction.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032728681
ISBN-10: 103272868X
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Revivals

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

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

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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.