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Masks of Difference

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David Richards here examines historical anthropological discourse - specifically writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races - as a form of textual practice. He analyses various kinds of 'naturalistic' representations, both artistic and literary, of colonised cultures, revealing the ways in which such representations betray their own subject-positions and fail - from our modern perspective - to act as the objective 'mirrors on nature' that they might originally have purported to be. Masks of Difference provides original and informative readings of individual sites of colonisation, including Florida (1564–91), and Scotland (1814), together with extended surveys; what emerges is a composite picture of anthropological representation as a textual genre in its own right, embracing literature, literary theory, and colonial/postcolonial studies.

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ISBN: 9780521479721
Publication date: 2nd March 1995
Author: David (University of Leeds) Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 364 pages
Series: Cultural Margins
Genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Anthropology