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Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Downcast Eyes, The Dialectical Imagination, and Marxism and Totality.
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of The Goddess and the Nation, also published by Duke University Press; The Lost Land of Lemuria, and Passions of the Tongue.
List of contents
Illustrations ix
Reprint Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires / Sumathi Ramaswamy 1
Section I: The Imperial Optic
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25
Part 1: Empires of the Palette
1. The Walls of Images / Serge Gruzinski 47
2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science / Daniela Bleichmar 64
3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette / Jordanna Bailkin 91
4. Colonial Panaromania / Roger Benjamin 111
Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium
5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings / Nicholas Thomas 141
6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton 159
7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle / David Ciarlo 189
Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming
8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity / Ricardo Padrón 211
9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt 246
10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia / Terry Smith 267
Part 4. The Imperial Lens
11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia 283
12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein 315
13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema / Brian Larkin 346
Section II. Postcolonial Looking
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377
Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities
14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Çelik 395
15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy 415
16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 450
17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony / Krista A. Thompson 471
18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification / Robert Stam 503
Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe
19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection / Christopher Pinney 539
20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikandi 566
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Double Dutch and the Culture Game / Olu Oguibe 594
Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality / Martin Jay 609
Contributors 621
Index 629
About the author
Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Downcast Eyes, The Dialectical Imagination, and Marxism and Totality.
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of The Goddess and the Nation, also published by Duke University Press; The Lost Land of Lemuria, and Passions of the Tongue.
Summary
Combining visual culture and postcolonial studies, this reader shows that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding how colonialism worked and how colonized subjects spoke to imperial rulers.
