On the Visual Apartheid in Western Europe

This paper focuses on the visual lack of the Muslim minority in the contemporary German urban landscape. Through the reinterpreting of Gérard Genette’s literary method of paratexts, I have analyzed architecture as the main text, while the media’s response is the epitext from which this study analyz...

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Autor principal: Courtney M. Dorroll
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d19da22141cd4664a9faf73ed5957a702021-12-02T17:49:35ZOn the Visual Apartheid in Western Europe10.35632/ajis.v29i3.3202690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/d19da22141cd4664a9faf73ed5957a702012-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/320https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This paper focuses on the visual lack of the Muslim minority in the contemporary German urban landscape. Through the reinterpreting of Gérard Genette’s literary method of paratexts, I have analyzed architecture as the main text, while the media’s response is the epitext from which this study analyzes the visibility of the minority in the physical space and the mediated space of Germany. This approach uses a critical cultural lens of analysis. Courtney M. DorrollInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 29, Iss 3 (2012)
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On the Visual Apartheid in Western Europe
description This paper focuses on the visual lack of the Muslim minority in the contemporary German urban landscape. Through the reinterpreting of Gérard Genette’s literary method of paratexts, I have analyzed architecture as the main text, while the media’s response is the epitext from which this study analyzes the visibility of the minority in the physical space and the mediated space of Germany. This approach uses a critical cultural lens of analysis.
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