VCC304H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epie Language, Gie, Michel De Certeau
15 Feb 2017
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Lecture three: race and body in colonial visual culture. Tropes are ways of telling a story, through a particular format, a scenario or relationship of characters so that the pattern is repeated in different concrete situations with different contents. Tropes are repeated over and over again, until they become naturalized representations. Charmaine nelson: (cid:862)white fe(cid:373)ale (cid:374)udes ha(cid:448)e t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)all(cid:455) (cid:271)ee(cid:374) pai(cid:374)ted (cid:449)ith a profusion of long, flowing tresses that envelope the body. This phallic device has been used to calm the male fear of castration invoked by the perception of female sexual la(cid:272)k(cid:863) (cid:894)representing the black female subject in western art, 2009, p. 113). Merriam-webster definition of allegory: (cid:862) (cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al figu(cid:396)es a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of truths or generalizations about human existence. (cid:863) (cid:862)i(cid:374) modernity, the idea of seeing farther, better, and beyond the human eye had tremendous currency; photography as the quintessential modern medium added in this (cid:395)uest .
