Disorientalism: Minority and Visuality in Imperial London
His work has centered on the theorization of visual culture as a field of study in books including Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign and Visual Culture in Modern France (Princeton, 1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999). His most recent book is Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture (Routledge, 2005). This essay is part of a long-term project under the working title Visual Rights: Minority and Modernity. In 2005 he was Canterbury Visiting Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Nicholas Mirzoeff; Disorientalism: Minority and Visuality in Imperial London. TDR/The Drama Review 2006; 50: 2 (190), 52–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.2.52
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