Priscilla Wald

Gebundenes Buch

Contagious

Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

Beschreibung

Shows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation.

Autor

Priscilla Wald is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and the editor of the journal American Literature, both also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341284
• ISBN-10: 082234128X
• Artikelnr.: 22956592