Priscilla Wald
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Chair of English at Duke University, is the author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008) and Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995), both published by Duke University Press. She is working on a monograph tentatively entitled “Human Being after Genocide.”
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What Happens When a Metaphor Becomes Reality
Epidemic Empire and Apocalyptic Geographies offer valuable lessons in the importance of metaphor to cultural analysis: as a form of sense making, metaphor is always a simultaneous process of revealing and obscuring; as a receptacle of cultural values, assumptions, and beliefs, it can also provide insight into a cosmology.
All essays featuring Priscilla Wald
What Happens When a Metaphor Becomes Reality
Epidemic Empire and Apocalyptic Geographies offer valuable lessons in the importance of metaphor to cultural analysis: as a form of sense making, metaphor is always a simultaneous process of revealing and obscuring; as a receptacle of cultural values, assumptions, and beliefs, it can also provide insight into a cosmology.