Fairies, ghosts, and Santa Claus : tinted glasses, fetishes, and the politics of seeing / Neriko Musha Doerr.

New York : Berghahn, 2023.

©2023

vii, 248 pages ; 24 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967- Fairies, ghosts, and Santa Claus. [New York] : Berghahn Books, 2023

English

February 21, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.