Seeing Politics Otherwise

Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction

AvPatricia Vieira

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

When 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.Vieira's discussion focuses on three literary works: Graciliano Ramos's Memoirs of Prison, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, and José Saramago's Blindness, with supplemental analyses of sculpture and film by Ana Maria Pacheco, Bruno Barreto, and Marco Bechis. These artists use metaphors of blindness to denounce the totalizing gaze of dictatorial regimes. Rather than equating blindness with deprivation, Vieira argues that shadows, blindfolds, and blindness are necessary elements for re-imagining the political world and re-acquiring a political voice. Seeing Politics Otherwise offers a compelling analysis of vision and its forcible deprivation in the context of art and political protest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-07-23
Mått:159 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Toronto Romance Series
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442642997

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Patricia Vieira is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.

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‘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)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shadows of Vision At the Blink of an Eye: Ethics and Politics Beheld Vision and Blindness in Greco-Roman MythologyThe Greek Philosophy of Light and Darkness: Parmenides and PlatoJudeo-Christian Representations of God: The Question of the Image and the Excess of BrightnessDark Spots in the Sun: Viewing the Enlightenment ProjectTwentieth-Century Fragments of Vision in Ruins Darkness and the Animal in Graciliano Ramos’s MemÓrias do CÁrcere Darkness in a State of EmergencyThe Ghost of the AnimalAutobiographical Twilight Twists of the Blindfold in Art, Fiction and Film Blindfolds, Hoods, and the Exercise of Power in the Art of Ana Maria PachecoTorture and Sociality in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the MaidenFilming 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