In Seeing Politics Otherwise, Patricia Vieira uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interrelation of politics and representations of vision and blindness in Latin American and Iberian literature, film, and art.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Shadows of Vision

1. At the Blink of an Eye: Ethics and Politics Beheld
   • Vision and Blindness in Greco-Roman Mythology
   • The Greek Philosophy of Light and Darkness: Parmenides and Plato
   • Judeo-Christian Representations of God: The Question of the Image
   • and the Excess of Brightness
   • Dark Spots in the Sun: Viewing the Enlightenment Project
   • Twentieth-Century Fragments of Vision in Ruins
2. Darkness and the Animal in Graciliano Ramos’s Memórias do Cárcere
   • Darkness in a State of Emergency
     The Ghost of the Animal
   • Autobiographical Twilight
3. Twists of the Blindfold in Art, Fiction and Film
   • Blindfolds, Hoods, and the Exercise of Power in the Art of Ana Maria Pacheco
   • Torture and Sociality in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden
   • Filming the Blindfold: Garaje Olimpo and O que é isso Companheiro?
4. The Reason of Vision: Variations on Subjectivity in José Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a CegueiraThe Reason of Blindness
   • Becoming Blind, Becoming a Subject
   • Collective Vision

Conclusion: Shades of Criticism

Works Cited

Patricia Vieira is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.