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The Right to Look

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Right to Look

By Nicholas Mirzoeff

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About the book

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-century concept, meaning the visualization of history, visuality has been central to the legitimization of Western hegemony. Mir...Show more

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9780822349181

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Right to Look

Format

Paperback

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