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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Zahid R. ChaudharyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780816677498ISBN 10: 0816677492 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 19 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Sensation and Photography 1. Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot 2. Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock 3. Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference 4. Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy Coda: Sensing the Past Acknowledgments Appendixes Translation of Proclamation Attributed to Nana Sahib Transcription and Translation of Farsi Inscriptions Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<p> Afterimage of Empire is a significant and original work of cultural analysis, and an important intervention in our understanding of the sensory and rhetorical dimensions of nineteenth century colonialism. --Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University Afterimage of Empire is an astute analysis of photographic material, from the early days of the medium. It is impressive in its ability to move with care through the different scales of analysis from the minutiae of scattered skulls in the foreground of one photograph to the question of whether a technology transforms both aesthetic form and the viewing subject. Ranjana Khanna, Duke University Afterimage of Empire is an astute analysis of photographic material, from the early days of the medium. It is impressive in its ability to move with care through the different scales of analysis--from the minutiae of scattered skulls in the foreground of one photograph to the question of whether a technology transforms both aesthetic form and the viewing subject. --Ranjana Khanna, Duke University Afterimage of Empire is a significant and original work of cultural analysis, and an important intervention in our understanding of the sensory and rhetorical dimensions of nineteenth century colonialism. --Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University An ambitious and theoretically challenging study of how photography shapes a new sensory and governmental apparatus of modernity in the colonial context, Afterimage of Empire succeeds in transforming the ways we think about the histories of photography and of colonialism. --David Lloyd, University of Southern California Afterimage of Empire is an astute analysis of photographic material, from the early days of the medium. It is impressive in its ability to move with care through the different scales of analysis from the minutiae of scattered skulls in the foreground of one photograph to the question of whether a technology transforms both aesthetic form and the viewing subject. Ranjana Khanna, Duke University Afterimage of Empire is a significant and original work of cultural analysis, and an important intervention in our understanding of the sensory and rhetorical dimensions of nineteenth century colonialism. Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University An ambitious and theoretically challenging study of how photography shapes a new sensory and governmental apparatus of modernity in the colonial context, Afterimage of Empire succeeds in transforming the ways we think about the histories of photography and of colonialism. David Lloyd, University of Southern California Author InformationZahid R. Chaudhary is assistant professor of English at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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