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Contested Representations : Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa /
Contested Representations examines the controversy surrounding the Into the Heart of Africa exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in 1989-90. The exhibition was meant to travel to the US and Canada, but four major museums cancelled their contracts due to its controversial nature. W...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Peterborough, Ont. :
Broadview Press,
2008.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Entering the Debates""; ""Reading the Royal Ontario Museum""; ""Coming into the Field""; ""Museum Ethnography""; ""Looking Ahead""; ""Final Notes on the Forum""; ""2 Into the Heart of Africa and the Status Quo""; ""The Status Quo""; ""Toward a Reflexive Museology""; ""Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact""; ""Museums Will Be Museums""; ""3 Prelude to the Controversy""; ""The Ambiguity of Irony""; ""Power Relations and Public Culture""; ""The Politics of Consultation""
- ""4 The Coalition for the Truth about Africa: Strategies and Challenges""""Performing Resistance""; ""The Politics of Contestation""; ""Experiences of â€oeOthernessâ€?""; ""Democratizing Museums""; ""A Counter Text: The CFTA Pamphlet""; ""Contradictions of Resistance""; ""Racism and Multiculturalism: Articulating a Contradiction""; ""5 Various Positions: Responses to the Coalition for the Truth about Africa""; ""Beyond Into the Heart of Africa""; ""Authority at/of the ROM""; ""Classroom Confrontations""; ""Media Conclusions: Radicalizing the CFTA""
- ""The Academy and Complex Subject Positions""""The Black Community: â€oeProtest and Processâ€?""; ""Victims and Victimization""; ""Other Voices at the ROM""; ""Outcomes""; ""Afterword: Canonizing an Exhibition, Renovating the ROM""; ""Appendix: Coalition for the Truth about Africa Pamphlet""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""