Seeing Politics Otherwise - Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction

Informationen zum Autor By Patricia Vieira Klappentext In Seeing Politics Otherwise, Patricia Vieira uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interrelation of politics and representations of vision and blindness in Latin American and Iberian literature, film, and art. Zusammenfassung In Seeing Politics Otherwise! Patricia Vieira uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interrelation of politics and representations of vision and blindness in Latin American and Iberian literature! film! and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Shadows of Vision At the Blink of an Eye: Ethics and Politics Beheld Vision and Blindness in Greco-Roman Mythology The Greek Philosophy of Light and Darkness: Parmenides and Plato Judeo-Christian Representations of God: The Question of the Image and the Excess of Brightness Dark Spots in the Sun: Viewing the Enlightenment Project Twentieth-Century Fragments of Vision in Ruins Darkness and the Animal in Graciliano Ramos’s Memórias do Cárcere Darkness in a State of Emergency The Ghost of the Animal Autobiographical Twilight Twists of the Blindfold in Art, Fiction and Film Blindfolds, Hoods, and the Exercise of Power in the Art of Ana Maria Pacheco Torture and Sociality in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden Filming the Blindfold: Garaje Olimpo and O que é isso Companheiro? The Reason of Vision: Variations on Subjectivity in José Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a CegueiraThe Reason of Blindness Becoming Blind, Becoming a Subject Collective Vision Conclusion: Shades of Criticism Works Cited

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• Authors: Not Available, Patricia Vieira, Patricia I. Vieira
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2011
• EAN: 9781442642997
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4299-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education