Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving...
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Author: Bakirathi Mani
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Language: English
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Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America by Mani, Bakirathi

Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

€223,74

Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

€223,74
Author: Bakirathi Mani
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and North America, Mani outlines the visual and affective relationships between South Asian diasporic artists, their photographic work, and their viewers. She notes that the desire for South Asian Americans to see visual representations of themselves is rooted in the use of photography as a form of colonial documentation and surveillance. She examines fine art photography by South Asian diasporic artists who employ aesthetic strategies such as duplication and alteration that run counter to viewers' demands for greater visibility. These works fail to deliver on viewers' desires to see themselves, producing instead feelings of alienation, estrangement, and loss. These feelings, Mani contends, allow viewers to question their own visibility as South Asian Americans in U.S. public culture and to reflect on their desires to be represented.

Author: Bakirathi Mani
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/11/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781478009849

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

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