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Dog of the Decade - Breed Trends and What They Mean in America (Paperback)
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Dog of the Decade - Breed Trends and What They Mean in America (Paperback)
Series: Dogs in Our World
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What do dogs mean in America? How do Americans make meaning through
their dogs? The United States has long expressed its cultural
unconscious through canine iconography. Through our dogs, we figure
out what we're thinking and who we are, representing by proxy the
things that we don't quite want to recognize in ourselves. Often,
it's a specific breed or type of dog that serves as an informal
cultural mascot, embodying an era's needs, fears, desires,
longings, aspirations, repressions, and hopeless contradictions.
Combining cultural studies with personal narrative, this book
creates a playful, speculative reading of American culture through
its canine self-representations. Looking at seven different breeds
or types over the last seven decades, readers will go on an
intellectual dog walk through some of the mazes of American
cultural mythology.
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