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The Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality /

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visualit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Oversight : the ordering of slavery
  • The modern imaginary : anti-slavery revolutions and the right to existence
  • Visuality : authority and war
  • Abolition realism : reality, realisms, and revolution
  • Imperial visuality and countervisuality, ancient and modern
  • Anti-fascist neorealisms : North-South and the permanent battle for Algiers
  • Global counterinsurgency and the crisis of visuality.