Review article

The Enemy Renarrated: Beyond Culture Clash

Souzana Mizan ; Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

National Geographic magazine’s visual and verbal representations of “exotic” or “Other” cultures have for more than a century formed people’s opinions and knowledge around the world in relation to these people. This article is an attempt to prove that these representations can never be objective or “purified” from the ideological, social, cultural or historical context of the creator of the images and discourse. Through my analysis of National Geographic’s visual representation of Iranian identity, I interrogate representation and the knowledge it produces and I show that the reading it makes of the world one among many possibilities available.

Keywords

identity; National Geographic; representation; images; ideology

Hrčak ID:

129417

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129417

Publication date:

29.11.2013.

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