Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sanaz Fotouhi, Esmail ZeinySeries:Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate WoTheme:Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/Middle Eastern, Religious Orientation/IslamicPublish date:11/9/2017Pages:216
Seen and Unseen teases out and explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that often create limited perspectives of certain issues and groups. This volume focuses in particular on the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging visual representations that reconstruct and dismantle existing belief systems. It approaches the topic from a vantage point of diverse multiple perspectives. Covering issues from Brunei, Iran, Egypt, and England and cyberspace, the essays in this volume examine the visual cultures of how Islam and Muslims are understood, misunderstood, misrepresented, or even embraced visually. Scholars in this volume draw on historical paintings, books and their covers, photography, and news to demonstrate the diversity and sometimes contradictory visual cultures that construct and adhere meaning to how Islam and Muslim people are seen.
Contributors: Hoda Afshar, Jared Ahmed, Syed Farid Alatas, Sanaz Fotouhi, Christiane Gruber, Layla Hendow, Raihana M.M., Bruno Starrs and Esmaeil Zeiny.
Contributors: Hoda Afshar, Jared Ahmed, Syed Farid Alatas, Sanaz Fotouhi, Christiane Gruber, Layla Hendow, Raihana M.M., Bruno Starrs and Esmaeil Zeiny.
Sanaz Fotouhi is a creative writer, filmmaker and holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales in diasporic literatures. Her book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora (IB Tauris, 2015) is the one the first of its kind that examines the body of diasporic Iranian writing in English.
Esmaeil Zeiny is research fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia. He received his PhD in Postcolonial literature in English from the National University of Malaysia. His research interests lie at the intersection of history, political theory, cultural studies and literary studies.
Esmaeil Zeiny is research fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia. He received his PhD in Postcolonial literature in English from the National University of Malaysia. His research interests lie at the intersection of history, political theory, cultural studies and literary studies.
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