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Title Seeing politics otherwise : vision in Latin American and Iberian fiction / Patrícia Vieira.
Author Vieira, Patricia I., 1977- author.
Publisher Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011


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Description x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781442642997 hardback
1442642998 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index.
Contents Introduction: Shadows of vision -- 1. At the blink of an eye : vision, ethics, and politics -- 2. Darkness and the animal in Graciliano Ramos's Memórias do cárcere (Memoirs of prison) -- 3. Twists of the blindfold in art, fiction, and film -- 4. The reason of vision : variations on subjectivity in José Saramago's Ensaio sobre a cegueira (Blindness).
Summary "When confronting twentieth-century political oppression and violence, writers and artists in Portugal and South America have often emphasized the complex relationship between freedom and tyranny. In Seeing Politics Otherwise, Patricia Vieira uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interrelation of politics and representations of vision and blindness in Latin American and Iberian literature, film, and art.
Vieira's discussion focuses on three literary works: Graciliano Ramos's Memoirs of Prison, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, and José Saramago's Blindness, with supplemental analyses of sculpture and film by Ana Maria Pacheco, Bruno Barreto, and Marco Bechis. These artists use metaphors of blindness to denounce the totalizing gaze of dictatorial regimes. Rather than equating blindness with deprivation, Vieira argues that shadows, blindfolds, and blindness are necessary elements for re-imagining the political world and re-acquiring a political voice. Seeing Politics Otherwise offers a compelling analysis of vision and its forcible deprivation in the context of art and political protest."--pub. desc.
Series University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered)
Library Class Hispanic S108
Subject Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Saramago, José -- Criticism and interpretation.
Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Portuguese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Latin American literature -- Political aspects.
Blindness in literature.
Vision in literature.
Portuguese literature -- Political aspects.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
Art -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
Political violence in literature.
Blindness in motion pictures.
Vision in motion pictures.
Political violence in motion pictures.

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