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Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger (Famine Folios)
Limits of the Visible Representing the Great Hunger - Famine Folios
Author: Luke Gibbons
The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been attributed to the shortcomings of a medium then it its infancy, but it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself. Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental responses but cannot address wider political questions of obligation and justice. Luke Gibbons revisits ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780990468622
ISBN-10: 0990468623
Publication Date: 4/1/2015
Pages: 40
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Publisher: Cork University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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