04721nam 2200901 450 991046255180332120200520144314.01-4426-9528-510.3138/9781442695283(CKB)2670000000187595(OCoLC)785775139(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541256(SSID)ssj0000623408(PQKBManifestationID)11427725(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623408(PQKBWorkID)10647846(PQKB)10267949(CEL)438869(CaBNVSL)slc00228450(MiAaPQ)EBC3279081(MiAaPQ)EBC4672830(DE-B1597)479401(OCoLC)979911471(DE-B1597)9781442695283(Au-PeEL)EBL4672830(CaPaEBR)ebr11258483(OCoLC)958514929(EXLCZ)99267000000018759520160914h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrSeeing politics otherwise vision in Latin American and Iberian fiction /Patrícia VieiraToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (209 p.)University of Toronto Romance1-4426-4299-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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) -- Conclusion Readings in the Dark: Shades of Criticism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexWhen 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.University of Toronto romance series.Latin American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPortuguese fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismBlindness in literatureLatin American literaturePolitical aspectsPolitical violence in motion picturesBlindness in motion picturesVision in literatureVision in motion picturesMotion picturesPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaArtPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaPortuguese literaturePolitical aspectsPolitical violence in literatureElectronic books.Latin American fictionHistory and criticism.Portuguese fictionHistory and criticism.Blindness in literature.Latin American literaturePolitical aspects.Political violence in motion pictures.Blindness in motion pictures.Vision in literature.Vision in motion pictures.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsArtPolitical aspectsPortuguese literaturePolitical aspects.Political violence in literature.869.3/4209358Vieira Patricia I.1977-921012MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462551803321Seeing politics otherwise2065735UNINA