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Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Book

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa-mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and, Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa-mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and, Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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  • Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
  • Written by author Paul S. Landau
  • Published by University of California Press, October 2002
  • Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa-mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and
  • Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa—mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meanin
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa1
1"Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe41
2The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape56
3Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics90
4Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism124
5Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa141
6Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography172
7Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas193
8"Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives212
9Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions233
10The Politics of Bushman Representations253
11Ornada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms275
12Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter294
Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa320
Bibliography337
List of Contributors371
Index375


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