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Mosaic (Winnipeg) articles from March 2005
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Mosaic (Winnipeg) archives from March 2005
Introduction.(The Photograph: international interdisciplinary conference, March 2004)(essays)
March 1, 2005... The appearance of this Mosaic issue follows, by a year, the international interdisciplinary conference on The Photograph that was held at The University of Manitoba 11-13 March 2004. Coming out of that extraordinary event, Mosaic published a...
Airbrushed history: photography, realism, and Rushdie's Midnight's Children.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... Informed by Rushdie's non-fiction, the social history of photography in India, and the work of Debord and Sontag, in this reading of Midnight's Children, I contend that Rushdie uses fictional photographs to stage a realist satire of colonial...
Decapitated forms: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's visual text and the politics of visibility.(Dictee)(Novel)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... Although the politics of visibility have often been celebrated as a means of representing marginalized histories and subjectivities, the role of the visual in articulating this politics, as well as the persistence of invisibility, has yet to be...
Trauma Obscura: photographic media in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.(memory, photography and the recall of catastrophic events in literary works)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... Informed by Cathy Caruth's discussion of trauma theory, Peter Brooks's notion of narrative desire, and Roland Barthes's investigations into photographic viewing, this essay examines photography in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz as a locus of trauma...
In the new republic of digital (re)production.(Imperialism of digital imaging)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... A brief historical account of the unfolding of photography as a weapon of the state against revolutionaries and troublemakers serves as context for our description of recent developments in digital imaging production and reproduction. We...
National photographic: images of sensibility and the nation in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Nadine Gordimer's July's People.
March 1, 2005... Psychological frameworks for both a national and sensible "imagined community" are socially transmitted via photographic images and illustrations to the female protagonists of Atwood's Surfacing and Gordimer's July's People. This essay examines...
The epistemology of Cindy Sherman: a research method for media and cultural studies.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... This essay is a manifesto for a cinematic/electronic media and cultural studies research method. I argue that Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills were produced using such a research method and I adapt this method for use within media and...
"Turn it, a little": the influence of the daguerreotype and the stereograph on Emily Dickinson's use of manuscript variants.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... The advents of the daguerreotype and the stereograph, with their non-self-identical physical properties and the naturalizing discourses surrounding their emergence, gave Dickinson the terms with which to think about knowledge and representation...
Showings forth: Dubliners, photography, and the rejection of realism.(photography as an influence on James Joyce's Dubliners)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... This essay asks what Dubliners may owe to a realism derived not from literary realism's models, but from a photographic realism newly emergent as photography moved, during Joyce's youth, out of the studio and into the street. Employing a...
Ghost in the machine: photographs of specters in the nineteenth century.(Spirit Photography)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... "Spirit Photography" consists of photographs in which the sitter appears near to the shadowy image of a dead beloved. This essay examines the ways that this practice both reaffirms the early promise of immortality made by photography and...
Gender, photograph, and desire: visual practices in El amor es una droga dura by Cristina Peri Rossi.(Love is an addiction)(novel)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... El amor es una droga dura by Cristina Peri Rossi is a novel about images. Through a discussion of gender, desire, and photography, this essay shows how the visual narrative installs fiction into a text-museum, the photograph paradigm as a...