Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction

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