Invisibility and power in the digital age
Issues for Feminist and Queer Narratology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5727036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tory Young (English & Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 991-1006 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2018.1486546 |
| OpenAlex | W2809522742 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This essay examines the continued assumption that representational visibility equates to power, in the digital age. It considers the tension between the image as a form that captures what already exists and the image as a future possibility in the era of the mantra ‘You cannot be what you cannot see’ and growing recognition of gender fluidity. After re-examination of Peggy Phelan’s reminder about the power of the unmarked, I turn to Ali Smith’s 2014 How to be both, a novel with an interchangeable Renaissance narrative and contemporary story in a palimpsestic structure, to propose a formula that could be described as the becoming-simultaneous of narrative sequence. In conceiving the ‘unnarrated’ as both a gap in what was represented in retrospect in an existing storyworld but equally as a narrative future, I link the unmarked to political possibility, and conclude that you cannot always see what you can be
Aesthetics · Art · Invisibility · Linguistics · Literature · Mantra · Narrative · Narratology · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |