Author Archive for: ‘Janice Yu’
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony
Jane Blocker, Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-5476-5 US$25.00 (pb) 153pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press http://www.upress.umn.edu/) A wedding is an allegorical event for the vertiginous mise en abyme that witnessing is. Frankenstein becomes a symbol of the monstrous burden of representing our invisibility. Blushing is the skin’s way …
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