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Seeing Politics Otherwise

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Seeing Politics Otherwise

By Patricia Vieira

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9781442642997

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Seeing Politics Otherwise

Format

Hardcover

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