When strangers bring cameras: The poetics and politics of othered places

American Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 411-435

  Cameron, Ardis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

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EID: 33749378761     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2002.0021     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Kathleen Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996)
2. Richard Brodhead, Cultures of Letters; Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994), 116, 119
3. See especially, Dona Brown, Inventing New England; Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995)
4. David Whisnant, All That is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1983)
5. Henry Shapiro, Appalachia On Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1978)
6. Steven Nissenbaum, "New England as a Region and Nation" in Edward Ayers and Pete Onuf, All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996)
7. George H. Lewis, "The Maine That Never Was: The Construction of Popular Myth in Regional Culture," Journal of American Culture 16 (summer 1993): 91-99
8. The term "art-culture system" is used by anthropologist historian James Clifford to describe how in the last century material objects, especially non-Western and tribal artifacts, accrued value and authenticity in "western systems of exchange, disciplinary archives, and discursive traditions." See James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1988), esp. ch. 10
9. Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997), esp. ch. 1
10. For a provocative critique of the kinds of representational essentializing performed by Western localizing strategies and disciplinary practices, see also Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1998)
11. Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory," Cultural Anthropology 3 (1988): 16-20
12. Harry Caudill, quoted in Calvin Trillin, "A Stranger with a Camera," The New Yorker, April 12, 1969, p. 179
13. For a detailed history of Caudill and his fight against the coal interests, see, David G. McCullough, "The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man," American Heritage 21 (Dec. 1969): 97-113
14. Stewart, A Space on the Side, 119
15. See also Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1986): esp. ch. 3
16. Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Totalizing Quest of Meaning" in Michael Renov, Theorizing Documentary (New York: Routledge, 1993), 96
17. For a provocative discussion of the documentary use of "the silent common people" see, Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Totalizing Quest," esp. 96-97
18. Stewart, Space, 11
19. Anthony Walton, "A Life in the Other Maine," New York Times Book Review, Aug. 20, 2000, p. 26
20. Stuart Klawans, "As Maine Goes, So Goes ..." The Nation, Feb. 14, 2000, p. 34
21. Wiseman Interview in Stephen Holden, "Seaside Town Under a Microscope," quoted in The New York Times, Jan. 28, 2000, Sec. E, p. 17
22. Errol Morris, quoted in Philip Lepate, "Composing an American Epic," in The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2000, p. 11
23. New York Times, Jan. 31, 2000
24. The Nation, Jan. 31, 2000
25. See also David Sterritt, "Penetrating Belfast, Maine, Gets Inside Small Town" in The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 28, 2000, p. 15
26. Eddie Cockrell, "Belfast, Maine" in Daily Variety, Sept. 7, 1999, p. 8
27. Chris Wright, "Belfast, Maine," Boston Phoenix, Jan. 31, 2000
28. The term is from Christian Metz, quoted in Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins, Reading National Geographic (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993), 193
29. Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1983), 84-87
30. The comparison to Flaherty is skillfully made by Fatimah Tobing Rony, "Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North: The Politics of Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography" in Daniel Berardi, ed., The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1996), 301-28, esp. 305
31. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. A. Sheridan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977), 25
32. Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Totalizing Quest," 96
33. Georgeanne Davis, "Belfast, Maine," The Free Press, Jan. 20, 2000
34. Holden, New York Times, Jan. 28, 2000, Sec. E, p. 17
35. Holden, New York Times
36. Carolyn Chute, quoted in Jules Crittenden, "Author Leads Crusade vs. 'Bad Government,'" Boston Herald, June 1, 1977, p. 6
37. Pauline Kael, quoted in Phillip Lopate, "Composing an American Epic," New York Times, Jan. 23, 2000, p. 11
38. Wiseman, quoted in Catherine Russel, "Persistence of Vision," Maine Times, Jan. 20, 2000, p. 16
39. Kathy Messier, Belfast Republican Journal, Feb. 10, 2000
40. See especially Klawans, "As Maine Goes, So Goes."