Iconographies of Power. The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation.

HASELSTEIN, Ulla / Berndt OSTENDORF / Peter SCHNECK (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 3825314049 / ISBN 13: 9783825314040

Published by Heidelberg: C.Winter. (2003)., 2003

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347 p. Original boards (hard cover) with title to spine and to front cover. Very good condition. (= American Studies - A Monograph Series. Volume 108). "In their distinct arguments and from different perspectives, the essays collected in this volume are all similarly concerned with the iconographical power and poetics of the image, including a broad range of visual representations: prints and illustrations, painting, sculpture and concept art, documentary and art photography, film comedy and digital imagery. In all these instances, the image is looked at not as an exclusive and isolated phenomenon but, rather emphatically, as a visual and contextual event; as both the source and target of the collision and the collusion of word and image; as instances and symptoms of contemporary iconographic practice alike." ################## LIEBE KUNDEN, WIR MACHEN UNSERE JÄHRLICHE FRÜHLINGSAKTION MIT MINDESTENS 30% RABATT AUF DEN GESAMTEN BESTAND. DIE ERMÄSSIGUNG GILT AB SOFORT, DER RABATT IST IN DEN ANGEZEIGTEN PREISEN BEREITS ENTHALTEN. ÜBER IHR INTERESSE AN UNSEREN SELTENEN STÜCKEN WÜRDEN WIR UNS WIE JEDES JAHR SEHR FREUEN ###################.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Iconographies of Power. The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation.
• Publisher: Heidelberg: C.Winter. (2003).
• Publication Date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3825314049
• ISBN 13: 9783825314040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 510 grams
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Colonizers are driven into a state of panic by the circulation of a 'humble' chapati; a young girl's setting her family's shoes on fire seems comparable to a nuclear attack; a sleepwalker kills two hundred and eighteen turkeys just to be rid of them. Are these events of historical significancei The works of Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Bharati Mukherjee seem to suggest that this question might be answered in the affirmative. The anecdote fleshes out what historical facts must elide in their abstraction. This study proposes that the fiction of all three authors can be read through Rushdie's metaphor of the chutneyfication of history. In line with the lighting of shoes and the murder of turkeys, the chutney's presence is a playful, unhistorical one; a presence, however, which Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Mukherjee proceed to turn into an historical agent in its own right, in a fusion of postmodernist and postcolonialist politics. Contrary to the claim that revolutions can be made by bread alone, this study suggests that this postmodernist agency of postcolonial aporia may in fact be self-defeating, and that the rejection of communal resistance which emerges in its wake must be considered in a much more critical light.