She Who Imagines: Feminist Theological Aesthetics by Laurie Cassidy & Maureen H. O’Connell

Author:Laurie Cassidy & Maureen H. O’Connell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8146-8028-5
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

The authorization for foreign aid and intervention to help this Sudanese child comes from indignation at the absence of her local world; foreign aid is evoked by erasing local voices and acts.59

What is most troubling is the “racial knowledge” that this picture reinscibes about suffering in Africa.60 This child’s representation is not without precedence but is rather part of the archive of images of black suffering children in Africa who appear desperate and victimized in the Western media.61 The image of this little child’s suffering body becomes an overcrowded intersection of views of the racialized suffering “Other.” Her suffering—her blackness—and her predatory surroundings make her “not us.” The photo in one image links together the ideology of the primitive with suffering and blackness in such a way that all these together in one body appear naturalized.62

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