TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fotouhi,Sanaz
AU  - Zeiny,Esmail
TI  - Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism
T2  - Studies on Performing Arts and Literature of the Islamicate World Series
SN  - 9789004357013
AV  - BP163 .S446 2018 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between -- Part 1 Imaging Histories -- Chapter 1 The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its Alternative -- Chapter 2 Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters -- Part 2 Unseen Reality -- Chapter 3 Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the 'Islamic' Terrorist Throughout the 'War on Terror' -- Chapter 4 Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi's Love in the Kingdom of Oil -- Chapter 5 'World Hijab Day': Positioning the Hijabi in Cyberspace -- Part 3 Interrogating Visual Representations -- Chapter 6 Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia Law -- Chapter 7 Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah -- Chapter 8 Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global Scene -- Chapter 9 From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in English -- Index
N2  - Seen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems
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