Hartnell, Anna (2012) Hurricane Katrina as visual spectacle: hurricane on the bayou and the reframing of American national identity. In: Cusack, T. (ed.) Art and Identity at the Water's Edge. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 53-68. ISBN 9781409421214.
Abstract
Book synopsis: The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting reframed the nationalist locus of the Vltava River Embankment. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Literature, Centre for, Research in Environment and Sustainability, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2011 11:46 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2024 05:07 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4413 |
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