Seeing Politics Otherwise : Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014
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| Series: | University of Toronto Romance.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shadows of Vision; 1 At the Blink of an Eye: Vision, Ethics, and Politics; 1.1 Vision and Blindness in Greco-Roman Mythology; 1.2 The Greek Philosophy of Light and Darkness: Parmenides and Plato; 1.3 Judaeo-Christian Representations of God: The Question of the Image and the Excess of Brightness; 1.4 Dark Spots in the Sun: Viewing the Enlightenment Project; 1.5 Twentieth-Century Fragments of Vision in Ruins; 2 Darkness and the Animal in Graciliano Ramos's Memórias do Cárcere (Memoirs of Prison); 2.1 Darkness in a State of Emergency.
- 2.2 The Ghost of the Animal2.3 Autobiographical Twilight; 3 Twists of the Blindfold in Art, Fiction, and Film; 3.1 Blindfolds, Hoods, and the Exercise of Power in the Art of Ana Maria Pacheco; 3.2 Torture and Sociality in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden; 3.3 Filming the Blindfold: Garaje Olimpo (Garage Olimpo) and O que é isso Companheiro? (Four Days in September); 4 The Reason of Vision: Variations on Subjectivity in José Saramago's Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness); 4.1 The Reason of Blindness; 4.2 Becoming Blind, Becoming a Subject; 4.3 Collective Vision.
- Conclusion Readings in the Dark: Shades of CriticismNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
