Veiling and Other Fantasies of Visibility
Journal: CR The New Centennial Review
Year: 2013

Veiling and Other Fantasies of Visibility George C. Grinnell (bio) I want to begin with two scenes, each one differently shameful for the ways in which they make the face an object of scrutiny in the name of justice and freedom: one takes place at the eve of Europe’s first encounter with terror and features the insular cosmopolitanism that marked European travel eastward before the French Revolution; the other is a recent Canadian example of increasingly common Western efforts to legislate again