... mediated wars visual activism humanitarian affect Napoleonic wars integrated spectacle ...

... The wars of our time saturate our everyday visual fields in unprecedented ways. This chapter traces the conjoining of human rights, technology, and media activism in confronting the ubiquity of contemporary wars and argues for their impact on the novelistic imagination. It also excavates...

...War The wars of our time saturate our everyday visual fields in unprecedented ways. This chapter traces the conjoining of human rights, technology, and media activism in confronting the ubiquity of contemporary wars and argues for their impact on the novelistic imagination. It also excavates...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... on this idea. “Shade” is a treatment of blackness that traverses visual and sonic spectra to make meaning, providing an active, experiential grammar described as “prismatic action.” The discursive value of this visual convergence foregrounds the subsequent eponymic essays: “Form,” on the tropic dissipation...

... In visual arts, historiographical writings, and literary texts, the image of the church recurs as a feature of civic identity and celebratory landmarks. Chapter 16 argues that Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View breaks with the tradition of “sacred topography” to depict monastic and convent communities...

... Electricity is a powerful enabling technology. It is also a social and cultural force of unparalleled proportions that has forever altered the landscape of daily life around the world. Certainly, electricity produced bright lights in big cities; it was the visual language of the modern urban...

... This chapter explores the provenance of the novel in our hypervisual and multimedia age. It argues that contemporary novels are now self-consciously intermedial in that they actively work into their formal structures and modes of address phenomenologies of apperception that far exceed the medium...

... their presence on every continent, to argue for a productive exchange between the struggles of the Third and Fourth worlds. Second, to highlight the role of the visual in Indigenous radicalism, and in doing so place Indigenous activism within the larger tradition of political posters. Finally, posters highlight...

... a visual commonality between ethnic Mexican and Black North Americans during the 1990s and early 2000s took place amid an upsurge of activity by people of African descent in Mexico. Photography became a key element of a new political subjectivity and became part of the broader depiction of connections...

... interdisciplinary approaches within the broader context of contemporary art in the United States. While the Nuyorican movement’s sociopolitical activism, poetry, and music are acknowledged, scholarship on Nuyorican visual art lags behind. Artists of Puerto Rican background born or raised in the United States...

... activism. It also explains the goals and challenges of the Puerto Rican Diaspora project, and the significance of his work in providing an alternative narrative for Puerto Ricans and Afro–Puerto Ricans in particular. It sets the stage for a deeper exploration of the visual and oral history captured within...

... The third chapter, focuses on missionary viewpoints. Dioramas and games at the Vatican Missionary Exposition, created by missionaries, constitute the visual evidence of the exposition's attempt to present itself as a “window on the world.” However, as the chapter argues, the exposition...

..., situates, and extends the notion of memoir as embodied practice. The series also makes use of “transmediality,” including poetry, prose, graphic illustration, and photography to craft Caribbean nonfiction. These themes recur in various forms throughout the book, making transmediality an active expression...

... This chapter explores the cultural expressions of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican population, highlighting how these contributions have been acts of survival and resistance. The chapter traces the growth of the Puerto Rican community in the city, including visual arts, media, and other forms...