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Informationen zum Autor For more than thirty years, Joan Burbick lived in the Palouse region of northern Idaho and eastern Washington writing and teaching at Washington State University with periodic stints as a visiting professor at universities in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Warsaw. At present, she resides on an island off the coast of Washington. Her two nonfiction books, Rodeo Queens and the American Dream and Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy were based on years of interviewing people about how the myths of the West shape everyday life. These interviews led her to many people whose lives were dramatically altered by violence. And their stories led her to Stripland, her first novel. Klappentext In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. Zusammenfassung In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. The book confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Textures of Authority: 1. The common senses of America; 2. Writing the constitution of the body; Part II. Fictions of the Body Politic: 3. Riddles of the brain; 4. The tell-tale heart; 5. Nervous reports; 6. The recording eye; Conclusions: somatic politics; Notes; Index.
