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Carousel: An Essay on Seeing

Carousel: An Essay on Seeing


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From an award-winning writer, a personal and critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen

Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a slide lecture in a darkened room. Her students are visible on Zoom, internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing more than students ever could before. But what, in fact, do they see?

In the spirit of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Sarah Minor's Carousel considers how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, immersive sections blending history and memoir, close looking and confession, educator and writer Minor masterfully fuses the slide carousel with the lyric essay. As professor-narrator she invites us to see across time, guiding us from the Bayeux Tapestry to surrealist paintings and Instagram reels, from hot-air balloons to drone warfare and the surveillance state. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves.



About the Author :

Sarah Minor is the author of two previous books, Bright Archive and Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, as well as the chapbook The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated. She teaches writing at the University of Iowa. Minor lives in Iowa City, IA.



Review :
“Reading Sarah Minor’s Carousel, I was a captivated student in a darkened room, enlightened by every page (or slide) of this surprising, learned, and luminous book.”—Kate Briggs, author of This Little Art

“Minor crafts remarkable studies in attention and distraction, brilliantly engaging with the realities and complexities of bringing historical materials into current conditions of encounter.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

“Minor’s prose—intimate, luminous, wise—unspools before our eyes, as mesmerizing as the horizon rushing away from us in her rear-view mirror.”—Barbara Browning, author of The Miniaturists

Carousel invites us into a zoetrope of provisional spaces: the interior horizons of war, media, confinement, and creative impulse, (un)framed, artfully rendered in taut, resonant prose. A gaze-changer.”—Tisa Bryant, author of Residual


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780300284331
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: An Essay on Seeing
  • ISBN-10: 0300284330
  • Publisher Date: 22 Sep 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 140 mm


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