Godina izdanja: 2009
ISBN: 3211992898
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Eva Meyer, Vivian Liska (editors) - What does the Veil know?
Edition Voldemeer Zürich, 2009
193 sttr.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

In the Assyrian, Greco-Roman and Byzantine empires, as well as in pre-Islamic Iran, veiling and seclusion were marks of prestige and symbols of status. The veil was a sign of respectability but also of a lifestyle that did not require the performance of manual labor. Its absence was a sign of poverty and prostitution but also of the performance of movement, in the streets and on the fields. It is the practice of veiling that makes women`s absence omnipresent and turns the veil into cause and symbol of political, social and religious controversy. While the politics of the veil can be divided into two main reactions, against or for the veil, we must refrain from doing the same by instead exploring the differences within these reactions, releasing the veil from any certain meaning, be it religious, sexual, social or political. Writing about the veil involves the necessity of encountering something radically strange. To be sure, each language has its own system of thought which conditions the thinkable. We cannot detach ourselves from the decisions our language has already made for us and which dictate us self-evident assumptions and proscriptions. What we are dealing with here is a radical import of strangeness into our language.

Vivian Liska is a professor of German Literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp. Eva Meyer is a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin.

Contents:
What does the veil know? / Eva Meyer
Upon revisiting
the veil / Vivian Liska
The cast-off gaze / Elfriede Jelinek
ABC of the veil / Heike Behrend & Gisela Völger
A present-day veil : the fiction of completeness / Hinrich Sachs
Michael in the snow / Willem Oorebeek
Off duty : the veils of servility / Avital Ronell
Veil of tears / Laurence A. Rickels
Between word and space / Rike Felka
Kiarostami`s Ten : mobilizing the viewer`s look / Ils Huygens
The future that death/other gives / Benda Hofmeyr
Harbin express / Stéphanie Benzaquen
Une seconde : sample / Johannes Porsch
The possibility of a sign / Silvia Henke
Reading, writing, hatching / Carol Jacobs
A matter of confidence / Eran Schaerf
Fichu`s Fritz / Rember Hüser
The veil`s free indirect discourse about itself / Eva Meyer
Inserts / Ayşe Erkmen


Nonfiction, Philosophy, Art, 3211992898