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Unseeing Empire
Bakirathi Mani
其他書名
Photography, Representation, South Asian America
出版
Duke University Press
, 2020-10-26
主題
Photography / Criticism
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
ISBN
1478012439
9781478012436
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tbUEEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.