Dance of Assassins - Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

Informationen zum Autor Allen F. Roberts is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author (with Mary Nooter Roberts) of A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize. Klappentext Allen F. Roberts is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author (with Mary Nooter Roberts) of A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize. Zusammenfassung Reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The "Emperor" Strikes Back 1. Invitation to a Beheading 2. A Conflict of Memories 3. Histories Made by Bodies 4. Tropical Gothic 5. Storms the Headhunter Part II. Remembering the Dismembered 6. The Rise of a Colonial Macabre 7. Art Évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles 8. Lusinga's Lasting Laughs 9. Composing Decomposition 10. Defiances of the Dead Appendix A: Some Background on Our Protagonists Appendix B: A Note on Illustrations Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Allen F Roberts, Allen F. Roberts, Roberts Allen F
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2012
• EAN: 9780253007506
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00750-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: African Expressive Cultures; African Expressive Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous