...Visual Representations of Recent Pasts ...

... Muslim Bangladesh birangonas postconflict visual representations ...

... surveillance witnessing concealment visual regimes media representation ...

... visual and literary representation photographs films human rights intertextual ...

... manifests and circulates in Bangladesh in three ways: first, the state category that designates the raped women as birangonas ; second, an extensive archive of visual and literary representations dating back to 1971; third, human rights testimonies of poor and middle-class birangonas since the 1990s...

..., masculinities, rehabilitation, violation of men, literary and visual representations, perceptions of the birangona as a traitor, and human rights testimonies. razaka r testimonial cultures feminist oral history 1971 ...

... This chapter explores the circulation and intertextuality of visual (photographs, films) literary (novels, poems), and human rights representations of birangonas from 1971 until 2001. It shows that these representations positively co-opted the birangona for the nation. But in the empirical...

... The introduction lays out three organizing conceptual principles—concealment, surveillance, and witnessing—which the book argues are responsible for the visual politics sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s “appearance,” maintaining the Israeli military occupation’s visual regimes...

... the discursive and the representational. photography family albums visual writing ...

... Mignon Nixon appraises a wide variety of representations of the psychoanalytic situation in her essay “On the Couch,” first published in the journal October in 2005. The essay both gathers and interrogates a suite of visual projects that have sought to make the clinical scene visible in film...

... This chapter investigates Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious, concentrating on photography but taking up a variety of representations and visual practices. Key examples range from the frontispiece of Hobbes’s  Leviathan  through daguerreotypes of enslaved persons to digital...

...Written Cities Part VII, “Written Cities,” looks at the city’s vast archive of literature, visual arts, and nonfiction writing to highlight recurrent themes in efforts to represent and imagine Buenos Aires. Documents explore visual and written representations of the city and its neighborhoods...

... in scientific visualization and pedagogy. By foregrounding the performative, gestural, and affectively charged nature of model building, it explores how embodied practices of scientific representation can be better understood in the idiom “rendering.” The chapter also outlines how, by tuning...

... The chapter explores the vibrant Puerto Rican community in Orlando, often referred to as Puerto Rico’s seventy-ninth municipality due to its cultural and linguistic ties. Despite being a refuge for many, the Puerto Rican visual art scene in Orlando faces challenges that diverge from its...

... Chapter 3 looks at embodiment and disembodiment in the articulation of black women’s layered visibility. This chapter looks at the positioning of physical prowess in representations of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Brazilian slave deity Blessed Anastácia. I argue that certain...

... This chapter explores the visual depiction of conflict rape through the photographic representation of survivors published in major American media. It looks at how aesthetic approaches to documenting gender violence are influenced by imperial framing, the attention economy and the role...

... This chapter is a visual excavation of Kang Je-gyu’s film about the Korean War, Taegukgi (2004), in relation to the film sets, theme parks, and exhibitions that drew large audiences in the wake of the film’s box-office success. Looking at material traces of the film’s depiction of the Korean...

... This essay interrogates the role of beauty in the visual field. Solomon-Godeau begins with a consideration of beauty as employed in art criticism, psychoanalysis, and photography. Using nineteenth-century nude photographs made by the Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden and his cousin Wilhelm Pluschow...