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2020

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Mani Bakirathi Mani

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26 octobre 2020

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9781478012436

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

23 Mo

In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and North America, Mani outlines the visual and affective relationships between South Asian diasporic artists, their photographic work, and their viewers. She notes that the desire for South Asian Americans to see visual representations of themselves is rooted in the use of photography as a form of colonial documentation and surveillance. She examines fine art photography by South Asian diasporic artists who employ aesthetic strategies such as duplication and alteration that run counter to viewers' demands for greater visibility. These works fail to deliver on viewers' desires to see themselves, producing instead feelings of alienation, estrangement, and loss. These feelings, Mani contends, allow viewers to question their own visibility as South Asian Americans in U.S. public culture and to reflect on their desires to be represented.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

26 octobre 2020

EAN13

9781478012436

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

23 Mo

Ethnic studies

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A C A M E R A O B S C U R A B O O K

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PHOTOGRAPHY, REPRESENTATION, SOUTH ASIAN AMERICA

i n g B A K I R AT H I M A N I e m p i r

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S SL O N D O N 2 0 2 0A N D D U R H A M

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îbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Names: Manî, Bakîrathî, author. Tîte: Unseeîng empîre : photography, representatîon, South Asîan Amerîca / Bakîrathî Manî. Other tîtes: Camera obscura book. Descrîptîon: Durham : Duke Unîversîty Press, 2020. | Serîes: A camera obscura book | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers:LCCN2020018442 (prînt) LCCN2020018443 (ebook) ISBN9781478009849 (hardcover) ISBN9781478010890 (paperback) ISBN9781478012436 (ebook) Subjects:LCSH:South Asîan Amerîcans—Cutura assîmîatîon— Unîted States. | South Asîan Amerîcans—Ethnîc îdentîty. | South Asîan dîaspora. CassîIcatîon:LCC E184.s69M365 2020 (prînt) | LCC E184.s69 (ebook) |DDC909/.04914—dc23 LCrecord avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2020018442 LCebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2020018443

Cover art: Seher Shah,The Expansîon Compex II, 2009. Archîva gîcée prînt, 137 × 81 cm. Courtesy o the artîst.

Duke Unîversîty Press grateuy acknowedges the Hungerord Facuty Support Fund at Swarthmore Coege, whîch provîded unds toward the pubîcatîon o thîs book.

FOR MARIO,AND FOR THE INFINITE LOVE WE SHARE WITH OUR SON,AMAR

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi

o n e / 33 Uncanny Feelings: Diasporic Mimesis in Seher Shah’s Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force

t h r e e / 119 Exhibiting Immigrants: Visuality, Visibility, and Representation atBeyond Bollywood

e p i l o g u e / 205 Curating Photography, Seeing Community

CONTENTS

i n t r o d u c t i o n / 1 The Work of Seeing: Photography and Representation in Diaspora

t w o / 70 Representation in the Colonial Archive: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’sAn Indian from India

f o u r / 159 Archives of Diaspora: Gauri Gill’sThe Americans

Notes 215 Bibliography 245 Index 261

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ILLUSTRATIONS

F I GURE S

I.1Palakunnathu Matthew, Annu Fabri cated Memories; installation atFatal Love2, Queens Museum of Art, 2005 I.2 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,Fabri cated Memories; installation atGenera tions3, Royal Ontario Museum, 2015 1.1The City of Tents52, 1903 1.2The Duke and Duchess of Connaught Arrive at the Durbar Amphitheatre, 1903 56 1.3Royal Pavilion, 1911 Delhi Durbar, December 12, 1911 57 1.4Park, New Delhi, 2018 60 Coronation 1.5Park, New Delhi, 2018 60 Coronation 1.6UA Flight 175 Hits World Trade Center South Tower 911, 200162 2.1 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, “Types,”fromAn Indian from Indiaseries, 2007 71 2.2.Curtis, Edward The Clam Digger, c. 1898–1900 81 2.3 Edward Curtis,[HeadandShoulders Portrait of Navajo Woman, Facing Front], c. 1904 89 2.4 Edward Curtis,The Blanket Maker—Navaho, c. 1904 89 2.5 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,Belles, from An Indian from Indiaseries, 2001 94 2.6 Plate 112,Pathans. Mahomedans. Shahjehanpore, fromThe People of India, vol. 3(1868–1875) 100 2.7 Plate 73,Newar Group. Slave Population. Supposed Aboriginal. Nipal,fromThe People of India, vol. 2(1868–1875) 102

2.8 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,An Indian from India; installation atGenerations, Royal Ontario Museum, 2015 109 2.9 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,An Indian from India; installation atGenerations, Royal Ontario Museum, 2015 113 3.1 Installation atBeyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 126 3.2Gets to Be a Citizen?” (detail), “Who installation atBeyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 135 3.3Singh Saund, installation at Dalip Beyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 137 3.4installation at “Groundbreakers,” Beyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 139 3.5 “Groundbreakers” (detail), installation atBeyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 141 3.6Davuluri, installation at Nina Beyond Bol lywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 143 3.7. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,An Indian from India; installation atBeyond Bol lywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 149 3.8Imagines India,” installation “America atBeyond Bollywood, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014 152

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