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Published: 27 March 2003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8485-4
Published: 27 March 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384854-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8485-4
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... Nayantara Sahgal personal/political reveal/conceal relational autobiography ...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... dilemma, in her fiction. Nayantara Sahgal personal/political reveal/conceal relational autobiography ...
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
..., though they are about the same life. Nevertheless, they become the spur for her writing and offer a clue to how she finally resolves her dilemma, in her fiction. Nayantara Sahgal personal/political reveal/conceal relational autobiography This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr...
Published: 31 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375418-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7541-8
... back turned away from the center of the photographic frame) that has the power to conceal as well as reveal. In this space the figure in the photograph provides a measure of mystery that offers the viewer alternative ways of engendering black womanhood within the promise of full humanity. Carrie...
Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities
Published: 20 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027454-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2745-4
... This chapter argues that the secret to law's authority remains partially obscured within legal theory and in the contemporary governance of racial and gendered hierarchies. This concealment is paradoxically made visible in the rhetorical tropes of night, such as darkness, blackness, sleepiness...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View reveals much about Venice at the turn of the sixteenth century; however, by its nature as a bird’s-eye view, it also conceals some essential aspects of the city. One of these is purely visual: for anybody viewing Venice at sea level, in 1500 or today, the image...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027676-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same time as it has been...
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By Nayanika Mookherjee
Published: 05 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
... of photography, visualism, orality, and commodification. This documentation process reveals how the experiences of wartime rape of 1971 are being combed (searched) while the birangonas ’ talkable histories of the 1990s are combed over (hidden). ethnography orality commodification birangona...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
...The Force of Capital This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... century. The wellhead was then transformed from a utilitarian necessity into a collector’s item, with the finest examples dispersed to museums, parks, and private estates throughout the world. wellhead vera da pozzo cistern network collecting Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View reveals much about...