Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East

by Anthony Downey

The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, can also determine the future. This point has gained urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where the archive has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784534110
• ISBN13: 9781784534110
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"