The right to look

Nicholas Mirzoeff.

The right to look : a counterhistory of visuality / Nicholas Mirzoeff. - Durham : Duke University Press , 2011. - xix, 385 pagina's. : illustraties. ; 24 cm

List of Illustrations ixPreface. Ineluctable Visualities xiiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against Visuality 1Visualizing Visuality 351. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 482. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to Existence 77Puerto Rican Counterpoint I 1173. Visuality: Authority and War 1234. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155Puerto Rican Counterpoint II 1885. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 1966. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers 232Mexican-Spanish Counterpoint 2717. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277Notes 311Bibliography 343Index 373

This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.

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