The Visual Divide Between Islam and the West: Image Perception Within Cross-Cultural Contexts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137569646)

This book aims at addressing the question of how do Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed by the West? The book inquires about a possible "will-to-visibility" that drives and divides the representation of Muslims in Western media from the desire of the Muslim/Arab to be "seen" and to register as a human life. Hatem N. Akil attributes this failure to a "delirious crisis of the Real" resulting in a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties visibility to violence. [This book] critically engages with questions about "ways of seeing" within cross-cultural contexts: why and how is an image seen in two opposing ways by people from different cultural backgrounds; and why and how do certain cartoons, photographs, and videos become both the cause and target of bloody political violence -- as witnessed by the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France and in the swift military response by the US and Jordan to videotaped violence by ISIS. -- Back cover.

Author: Hatem N. Akil
ISBN-10: 1137569646
ISBN-13: 9781137569646
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2016
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.70d