Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
2002
GN645 .I43 2002eb
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Title
Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
ISBN
9780520927292 (electronic bk.)
052092729X (electronic bk.)
141752264X (electronic bk.)
9781417522644 (electronic bk.)
0520229487 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520229488 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520229495 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780520229495 (paper ; alk. paper)
1597346675 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
9781597346672 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
052092729X (electronic bk.)
141752264X (electronic bk.)
9781417522644 (electronic bk.)
0520229487 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520229488 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520229495 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780520229495 (paper ; alk. paper)
1597346675 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
9781597346672 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
9780520229495
9780520229488
9780520229488
Call Number
GN645 .I43 2002eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55857417
Summary
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
"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.
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