From A View On The World To A Point Of View In It
Rethinking Sight, Space and the Colonial Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4546094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Dubow (0000-0003-0429-0175, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-102 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/136980100360814 |
| OpenAlex | W2077846241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 8 |
This essay seeks to revise the claims of recent postcolonial critique by replacing analyses of a power-charged colonial gaze with an approach that emphasizes the lived and affective aspects of visual experience under colonial conditions. The key argument here is how the creation of a field of vision represents the colonial subject's anxious desire for reciprocal engagement in a foreign space. Attendant on this is the suggestion that that strand of postcolonial critique which lays stress on the discursive determinations of the colonizing subject and on the formal structures of a colonial scopic regime betrays a dependence on a reductively spectatorial notion of theory. Against this reduction I suggest that a phenomenologically grounded account of colonial vision contains the potential for appreciating the lived and embodied desires of the colonizing subject and offers an alternative to the strictures of ideological critique that still largely regulate our attention. In looking towards a more dialogic conception of colonial sight and space, I offer the thematic hook of the colonial picturesque. It is, I argue, an aesthetic which does not merely mimetically duplicate a colonial view on the level of representational content. Rather, its internal and formal dynamics offer a stratagem for forging a relation between subject and object, self and space, and so enables the colony to be brought into phenomenal being
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |