Commanding Views and Orientalist Visions
Author | : Chris Borman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chris Borman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Salar Mameni |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2023-08-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1478027045 |
In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene and the war on terror centered the antagonist figures of the Anthropos and the terrorist as responsible for epochal changes in the new geological and geopolitical world orders. In response, Mameni shows how the Terracene requires radically new engagements with terra (the earth), whose intelligence resides in matters such as oil and phenomena like earthquakes and fires. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene.
Author | : Edward Welch |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1781386374 |
This study investigates how relations between France and Algeria have been represented and contested through visual means since the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954.
Author | : Felix Driver |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226164705 |
The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between the demands of experience and representation, documentation and fantasy, travelers in the tropics have often treated tropical nature as a foil to the temperate, to all that is civilized, modest, and enlightened. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire explores images of the tropical world—maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts—produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven beautifully illustrated essays—arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites—that consider the ways that tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form. Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art objects, Islamic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret Topping |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9783039101832 |
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the range of French and francophone encounters with the East from the medieval period to the present day. --book cover.
Author | : Edward Ziter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-09-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521818292 |
This book explores the impact of the Middle East and the Orient on writing and performance in nineteenth-century British theatre.
Author | : Edward W. Said |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804153868 |
A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
Author | : William V. Spanos |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0252092457 |
With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said’s work as that of a subversive intent on slandering America’s benign global image and undermining its global authority. On the left, a significant number of oppositional intellectuals are eager to counter this neoconservative vilification, proffering a Said who, in marked opposition to the “anti-humanism” of the great poststructuralist thinkers who were his contemporaries--Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Michel Foucault--reaffirms humanism and thus rejects poststructuralist theory. In this provocative assessment of Edward Said’s lifework, William V. Spanos argues that Said’s lifelong anti-imperialist project is actually a fulfillment of the revolutionary possibilities of poststructuralist theory. Spanos examines Said, his legacy, and the various texts he wrote--including Orientalism,Culture and Imperialism, and Humanism and Democratic Criticism--that are now being considered for their lasting political impact.
Author | : Sucheta Mazumdar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135211981 |
An intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors.