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OverviewWhen confronting twentieth-century political oppression and violence, writers and artists in Portugal and South America have often emphasized the complex relationship between freedom and tyranny. 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. offers a compelling analysis of vision and its forcible deprivation in the context of art and political protest. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia VieiraPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9781442642997ISBN 10: 1442642998 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 23 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 Memorias do Carcere * 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 e isso Companheiro? * The Reason of Vision: Variations on Subjectivity in Jose Saramago's Ensaio sobre a CegueiraThe Reason of Blindness * Becoming Blind, Becoming a Subject * Collective Vision Conclusion: Shades of Criticism Works CitedReviews'Insightful exploration of blindness and its cultural representations... This thought-provoking study is also accessible and relevant to those working beyond Hispanic and Lusophone Studies.' -- Stuart Davis 'Insightful exploration of blindness and its cultural representations... This thought-provoking study is also accessible and relevant to those working beyond Hispanic and Lusophone Studies.' -- Stuart Davis Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 90:07:2013 ‘Insightful exploration of blindness and its cultural representations… This thought-provoking study is also accessible and relevant to those working beyond Hispanic and Lusophone Studies.’ -- Stuart Davis * Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 90:07:2013 * Author InformationPatricia Vieira is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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