Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736886
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus by : Neriko Musha Doerr
Download or read book Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. Examining experiences at a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, as well as in college classrooms, this book reveals the workings of unit-thinking and fetishism in diverse contexts and explores possibilities for social change.