Journal article
Grave Misgivings: Allegory, Catharsis, Composition
Abstract
Days after the December 1890 US Army massacre of Lakota refugees at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, commercial photographer George Trager photographed the Army burial detail as they cleared the site and committed the dead to a mass grave. Widely circulated as post-cards, Trager's photographs merged with a broader colonial narrative, allegorically and cathartically sketching a heroic account of a dire confrontation between `civilization' and …
Authors
Beier JM
Journal
Security Dialogue, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 251–269
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
June 2007
DOI
10.1177/0967010607078528
ISSN
0967-0106