Francis: A Saint's Way

by James Cowan

Book Overview

In this collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. In one essay, taking off from ideas raised earlier...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764807072
• ISBN13: 9780764807077
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Liguori Publications
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Janes Cowan's St. Francis

The book is chock full of information, theology and philosophy.I especially enjoyed the footnotes which are placed with the text rather than being at the bak of the book.Francis was complex and this is a complex read.