{"product_id":"a-camera-in-the-garden-of-eden-9781477308554","title":"A Camera in the Garden of Eden","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pioneering contribution to visual culture studies reveals how banana plantation workers and their families used photography to visually assert their identities and rights as citizens, despite being outmatched by a powerful multinational corporation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The strengths of Coleman's volume rest on its heretofore never seen visual record of a banana enclave…the subjects of these photographs speak to us in arresting ways.\" * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kevin Coleman's innovative and timely study integrates a critical analysis of the social uses of photography and photographs with the tumultuous political history of twentieth-century Honduras...Coleman's study is a marvelous example of why it remains important for historians to have an ear on the ground (and their eyes on the walls) in the rooms where the stories happened.\" * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Coleman is able to give voice to various segments of Honduran society that are otherwise excluded in national histories.\" * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue. Foto Arte and Corporate Seeing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne. Photography as a Practice of Self-Forging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo. Visualizing Progress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree. Vaudeville and Empire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour. An Egalitarian Optic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive. Transnational Imagescapes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix. In Visibility in an Exceptional Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven. Photographs of a Prayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight. Possibility Eruption Exists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine. Between Is and Ought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue. A Bridge Called Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408944505175,"sku":"9781477308554","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-camera-in-the-garden-of-eden-9781477308554","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}