Mani Unseeing Empire

Photography, Representation, South Asian America
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1243-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: A Camera Obscura Book

Bakirathi Mani examines the visual and affective relationships between South Asian diasporic viewers, artists, and photographic representations of immigrant subjects, showing how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mani, Bakirathi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. The Work of Seeing: Photography and Representation in Diaspora 1
1. Uncanny Feelings: Diasporic Mimesis in Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force 33
2. Representation in the Colonial Archive: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's An Indian from India 70
3. Exhibiting Immigrants: Visuality, Visibility, and Representation at Beyond Bollywood 119
4. Archives of Diaspora: Gauri Gill's The Americans 159
Epilogue. Curating Photography Seeing Community
Notes 215
Bibliography 245
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Bakirathi Mani is Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America.