Images and Empires - Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Informationen zum Autor Paul S. Landau is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park, and author of The Realm of the World: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (1995). Deborah D. Kaspin is an independent scholar. Klappentext Images and Empires is a lively and engaging collection of essays on images and iconography, their meanings, uses, and influences in colonial and post-colonial Africa. The book offers a new way of understanding Africa beyond debates about oral versus written texts, by engaging with the visual. Zusammenfassung Considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. This title assembles a range of collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa Paul Landau 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography Hudita Nura Mustafa 7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas Henry John Drewal 8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives Robert Gordon 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions Catherine Hodeir 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations Pippa Skotnes 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms Paula Ben-Amos Girshick 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter Eric Gable Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa Deborah D. Kaspin Bibliography List of Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: Paul Landau, Paul Kaspin Landau, Paul Stuart Kaspin Landau
• Assisted by: Deborah Kaspin (Editor), Deborah D. Kaspin (Editor), Kaspin Deborah (Editor), Paul Landau (Editor), Paul S. Landau (Editor), Paul Stuart Landau (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2002
• EAN: 9780520229495
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22949-5
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / General, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, The arts: general topics