Françoise Král, Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture: The Fractal Gaze

Power, as both Shakespeare and Foucault knew, is a matter of vision. Who observes, who is seen or seeks to hide, who is banished from sight or evades the gaze – the scopic operations of discipline and punishment have ever been the measure of authority and resistances to it. In the context of today’...

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Auteur principal: McLEOD, John
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: E-rea 2016
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Power, as both Shakespeare and Foucault knew, is a matter of vision. Who observes, who is seen or seeks to hide, who is banished from sight or evades the gaze – the scopic operations of discipline and punishment have ever been the measure of authority and resistances to it. In the context of today’s liquid modernity, of global diasporas and mediatised spectacle, Françoise Král attends to the ocular fortunes of subjugated peoples as they are represented across a range of cultural forms, chief...