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Colonial Exposure

Chapter of: Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions(pp. 149–157)

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TitleColonial Exposure
ContributorAylin Kuryel(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.13
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAylin Kuryel
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2023-11-22
Long abstractThe essay focuses on Arami Ullón’s film, Apenas el Sol (Nothing but the Sun,2020), which follows Mateo’s journey, through his forced removal from the forest and conversion to Christianity, one of the countless deracinated indigenous Ayoreo people of Paraguay. It analyzes the ways in which the film offers fragments of a collective contemplation on being uprooted through their shifting relations to the sun, both before and after the arrival of the missionaries in the late 50s and the early 60s. The essay, “Colonial Exposure”, thinks together with the film, to explore the ways in which the solar appears not as an infinity without context, nor as a metaphor, but as a material entity whose meaning and function change drastically throughout colonial history.
Page rangepp. 149–157
Print length19 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • colonialism
  • shame
  • property
  • uprooting
  • image-making
Contributors

Aylin Kuryel

(author)
Assistant Professor at the Literary and Cultural Analysis department at University of Amsterdam
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8082-0110

Aylin Kuryel is an Assistant Professor at the Literary and Cultural Analysis department at the University of Amsterdam. Her research areas are nationalism, image politics, aesthetics/resistance, and politics of emotions. She is the co-editor of Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Possibilities (Rodopi, 2010), Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings (Küresel Ayaklanmalar Çağında Direniş ve Estetik, Iletisim Press, 2015), Being Jewish in Turkey: A Dictionary of Experiences (Türkiye’de Yahudi Olmak: Bir Deneyim Sözlüğü, Iletisim Press, 2017), and Essays on Boredom (Sıkıntı Üzerine Denemeler, Iletisim Press, 2020). She has been involved in projects as an artist and is working as a documentary filmmaker. Among her documentaries are Translating Ulysses (2023), A Defense (2021), CemileSezgin (2020), The Balcony and Our Dreams (2020), Heads and Tails (2018), and Welcome Lenin (2016).