Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus : : Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing / / Neriko Musha Doerr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Doerr, Neriko Musha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Tinted Glasses, Unit Thinking, and Coherants --; Chapter 1 The Politics of Vision and the Fetish beyond Optical Unconscious: Toward Spectacle Pedagogy --; Chapter 2 Seeing Failed Ninja, Ghost Samurai, and Last Samurai: Phantom Japan at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States --; Chapter 3 Seeing Angels: The Fetish of Smiling Angels in the “Poor but Happy” Discourse in Sierra Leone --; Chapter 4 Seeing Holy Mouth Man: The Fetish of Study Abroad Transformation Talk --; Chapter 5 Seeing Dr. Jekyll in Mr. Hyde: Political Others and beyond the Polarization of “Critical” and “Uncritical” --; Chapter 6 Seeing Fairies and Anti-Spectacle Pedagogy: Cottingley Photographs of Fairies and the Linguistic Landscape Project --; Chapter 7 Seeing Santa Claus and Elves: Swinging between Fantasy-World-for-Escape and Scrutinized-World-for-Change --; Chapter 8 Seeing Robbers, Freaks, and Dirt: Seeing Maui’s Fishhook in Scorpio and the Fetish of Us --; Conclusion: Continuing Dialogues --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800736887; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800736887
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neriko Musha Doerr.

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.