TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Kevin
TI  - A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic 
SN  - 9781477308578
AV  - TR183 .C66 2016
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Banana trade
KW  - Honduras
KW  - History
KW  - Photography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Plantation workers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Prologue Foto Arte and Corporate Seeing --; One Photography as a Practice of Self-Forging --; Two Visualizing Progress --; Three Vaudeville and Empire --; Four An Egalitarian Optic --; Five Transnational Imagescapes --; Six In Visibility in an Exceptional Space --; Seven Photographs of a Prayer --; Eight Possibility Eruption Exists --; Nine Between Is and Ought --; Epilogue A Bridge Called Democracy --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/308547
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477308578
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477308578/original
ER  -