{"product_id":"a-planetary-lens-9781496225139","title":"A Planetary Lens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate the sites where stories resonate, and to listen to western women’s voices. From foundational California photographers Anne Brigman and Alma Lavenson to contemporary Native poets and writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Joy Harjo, women artists have used photographs to generate stories and to map routes across time and place. \u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the richness and theoretical sophistication of such composite texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Looking beyond the ideologies of wilderness, migration, and progress that have shaped settler and popular conceptions of the region, \u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e shows how many artists gather and assemble images and texts to reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine addition to the University of Nebraska Press 'Postwestern Horizons' series, this book will be valuable for students of US literature and photography and of feminist and gender studies.\"—B. Wallenstein, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Goodman's study provides a well-researched and accessible model for producing interdisciplinary scholarly writing for the humanities, environmental studies, and antiracist projects. . . . \u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation for future scholars to further engage the important relations between regionality and planetary citizenship, meditative text and snapshot, adaptation and revision, as well as change and belonging.\"—Susan Kollin, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates a new reading strategy that will serve us well as we consider the deep and ongoing effects of patriarchy and colonization on the way women and others produce creative texts and understand place. . . . Goodman’s beautiful book reveals how re-storying colonized spaces is crucial for bodies and land.”—Gioia Woods, editor of \u003ci\u003eLeft in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Planetary Lens\u003c\/i\u003e advances several important scholarly conversations including environmental justice, feminist critical regionalism, local and global Indigenous studies, western American literary studies, and material ecocriticism. Goodman’s elegantly written study draws together texts from a broad array of perspectives to interrogate how artists combine image and written texts in ways that revise and reorient conceptions of region, self, and storytelling. . . . Lucid and persuasive.”—Amy T. Hamilton, author of \u003ci\u003ePeregrinations: Walking in American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Taking Pictures, Making Books\u003cbr\u003e 1. Photographers and Storytellers in the U.S. West: Toward a Regional Photo-Poetics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Western Women’s Camera Work: Reassembling California Photo-Books\u003cbr\u003e 3. Joan Didion’s White Albums: Notes and Snapshots from a “Native” Daughter\u003cbr\u003e 4. Visual Passageways: Restorying Native Portraits\u003cbr\u003e 5. Circling Out from Laguna: Leslie Silko’s Planetary Storytelling\u003cbr\u003e 6. Apertures into the Next World: Joy Harjo’s Visionary Poetics\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Open Archives, Unbound Books\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234567511,"sku":"9781496225139","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225139.jpg?v=1730506075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-planetary-lens-9781496225139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}