Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture [electronic resource] : The Fractal Gaze /
Kral, F.author.
Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 0.1 Paradigm shifts in diasporas and visibility; 0.2 Archiving memory and invisible lives; Part I: Theorizing Invisibility Studies; 1 Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility; 1.1 Economic invisibility and the 'informal sector'; 1.2 Political invisibility; 1.3 Invisibility studies: a methodological predicament; Conclusion; 2 Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility; 2.1 Space and the location of social invisibility
2.2 From place to social space: the invisibility of the social being2.3 Towards an ethics of invisible lives; Conclusion; Part II: Artistic Scenes of Visibility; 3 Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question; 3.1 Dysgazing: a critique of Western scopophilia; 3.2 Consensual exposure: towards an ethics of the visible body; Conclusion; 4 Films and Mass Visibility; 4.1 Cinematic overexposure and the 'burden of hypervisibility'; 4.2 Local concerns, global media, dual audiences; Part III: Sites of Invisibility; 5 Nation Building and Home Thinking
5.1 Performative homes: postcolonial legacies and the temporality of the home5.2 Shifting lines, moving outlines: home and the allegory of the nation; 5.3 Homes in question: towards a symptomatology of the home in 'migrant times'; 6 Invisibility and the Fractal City; 6.1 Towards a 'kineography' of the city: intersecting cultural productions and theories of urban planning; 6.2 Apprehending the fractal city; 6.3 The 'fractal gaze'; 6.4 Re-segmenting the diasporic subject; Conclusion: Unearthing the 'fractus': a critique of cosmopolitanism; Concluding Remarks: Fractal Visibility; Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.
Oriental literature.
Culture.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—Philosophy.
Asian Literature.
Sociology of Culture.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.