{"product_id":"unseeing-empire-bakirathi-mani-9781478009849","title":"Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America","description":"In \u003ci\u003eUnseeing Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bakirathi Mani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478009845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478009849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Bakirathi Mani","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983401943295,"sku":"9781478009849","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4a362c3-8d6d-4c47-b917-467737bf2911.jpg?v=1683266428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unseeing-empire-bakirathi-mani-9781478009849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}