Sites unseen : architecture, race, and American literature / William A. Gleason
- Author
- Gleason, William A., 1961-
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns -- Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space -- Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories -- Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres -- Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan -- Coda: Black cabin, white house.
- Summary
- Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and-although we have not yet understood this clearly-race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780814732489 (electronic bk.)
0814732488 (electronic bk.)
9780814733271 (electronic bk.)
0814733271 (electronic bk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment
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