A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic by Coleman, Kevin

A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of...
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Author: Kevin Coleman
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A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic by Coleman, Kevin

A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

Dhs. 247.14

A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

Dhs. 247.14
Author: Kevin Coleman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company's power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated "banana republics."

In A Camera in the Garden of Eden, Kevin Coleman argues that the "banana republic" was an imperial constellation of images and practices that was checked and contested by ordinary Central Americans. Drawing on a trove of images from four enormous visual archives and a wealth of internal company memos, literary works, immigration records, and declassified US government telegrams, Coleman explores how banana plantation workers, women, and peasants used photography to forge new ways of being while also visually asserting their rights as citizens. He tells a dramatic story of the founding of the Honduran town of El Progreso, where the United Fruit Company had one of its main divisional offices, the rise of the company now known as Chiquita, and a sixty-nine day strike in which banana workers declared their independence from neocolonial domination. In telling this story, Coleman develops a new set of conceptual tools and methods for using images to open up fresh understandings of the past, offering a model that is applicable far beyond this pathfinding study.



Author: Kevin Coleman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 02/23/2016
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781477308554

About the Author
KEVIN COLEMANToronto, OntarioColeman is an assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto Mississauga.


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