Images and empires [[electronic resource] ] : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780449303321
• Autore: Landau Paul Stuart <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-520-92729-X; 1-59734-667-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KaspinDeborah D
• Disciplina: 301.096; 301/.096
• Soggetti: Africa; Africa - Colonization; Africa in art; Africa in literature; Africa in mass media; Postcolonialism; Visual anthropology; Visual anthropology-- Africa; Visual sociology; Visual anthropology - Africa; Visual sociology - Africa; Postcolonialism - Africa; Ethnic & Race Studies; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Africa In art; Africa In mass media; Africa In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa; 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So ; Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe; 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape; 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics; 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism; 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa; 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography; 7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives; 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions; 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations; 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms; 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter; Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 power of images in African history and culture.