Seeing in Tongues
Border Crossings in Text, Image and Media
Edited by J. J. Long and Edward Welch
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ISBN: 978-1-839540-82-0 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-839540-83-7 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839540-84-4 (JSTOR ebook) As Visual Culture has emerged as a field of study over the past three decades or so, it has drawn extensively on theoretical paradigms originally developed in French, German and other national contexts. At the same time, research in the interdisciplinary fields of languages and cultures has played a decisive role in shaping Visual Culture studies by decentring and interrogating the critical assumptions of a domain that tends towards Anglophone, Anglo-centric and Euro-centric reflexes. Seeing in Tongues takes stock of the contribution to Visual Culture studies made by scholars working within and across varied cultural and linguistic contexts. Their distinctive contribution lies not simply in understanding how images work within different national contexts, but also in their sensitivity to the broader dynamics of intercultural contact, transnational movement, and border crossings both literal and figurative. Mapping the contours of visual economies within and between cultures illuminates the transversal nature and history of image flows, as well as the forces and factors that shape their circulation.
Bibliography entry: Long, J. J., and Edward Welch (eds), Seeing in Tongues: Border Crossings in Text, Image and Media, Visual Culture, 5 (Legenda, 2026) First footnote reference: 35 Seeing in Tongues: Border Crossings in Text, Image and Media, ed. by J. J. Long and Edward Welch, Visual Culture, 5 (Legenda, 2026), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Long and Welch, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Long, J. J., and Edward Welch (eds). 2026. Seeing in Tongues: Border Crossings in Text, Image and Media, Visual Culture, 5 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Long and Welch 2026: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Long and Welch 2026: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Seeing-in-Tongues www.mhra.org.uk/publications/vc-5 |
September 2026