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Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau
- "Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke
- The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn
- Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt
- Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan
- Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau
- Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa
- Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal
- "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon
- Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir
- The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes
- Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick
- Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable
- Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.