Seen and unseen : : visual cultures of imperialism / / edited by Sanaz Fotouhi, Esmaeil Zeiny.

Seen and Unseen teases out and explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that often create limited perspectives of certain issues and groups. This volume focuses in particular on the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and exp...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World 05.
Physical Description:1 online resource (225 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between / Sanaz Fotouhi and Esmaeil Zeiny
  • The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its Alternative / Syed Farid Alatas
  • Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters / Christiane Gruber
  • Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the ‘Islamic’ Terrorist Throughout the ‘War on Terror’ / Jared Ahmad
  • Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil / Layla Hendow
  • ‘World Hijab Day’: Positioning the Hijabi in Cyberspace / M. M. Raihanah
  • Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia Law / D. Bruno Starrs
  • Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah / Esmaeil Zeiny
  • Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global Scene / Hoda Afshar
  • From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in English / Sanaz Fotouhi
  • Index.