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Presenting America's World - Strategies of Innocence in National Geographic Magazine, 1888-1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Presenting America's World - Strategies of Innocence in National Geographic Magazine, 1888-1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Re-materialising Cultural Geography
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National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and
popular expression of geography in the USA. Presenting America's
World presents a critical analysis of the world portrayed by
National Geographic, from its formative years in the nineteenth
century, through to 1945. It situates the National Geographic
Society's development within the context of a new American overseas
expansionism, interrogates the magazine as America's ubiquitous
source of wholesome exotica and erotica, examines the ways in which
it framed the world for its millions of readers, and questions its
participation in the cultural work of US global hegemony. The book
argues that National Geographic successfully employed 'strategies
of innocence', a contradictory stance of representation which
simultaneously asserts innocence - either the innocence of 'just
watching' or the innocence of altruistic behaviour - while
naturalizing Western hegemony. Presenting America's World not only
considers the world that National Geographic presented to its
readers, but also examines the magazine's own institutional world
of writers, photographers and editors. Particular attention is paid
to Gilbert H. Grosvenor, the magazine's editor for over 50 years,
Maynard Owen Williams, a writer and photographer who worked on
nearly 100 articles from 1919 to 1960 and Harriet Chalmers Adams, a
freelancer, explorer and Pan-American activist who contributed 21
articles.
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