04071nam 22009493u 450 991045641460332120210619200159.00-520-92729-X1-59734-667-5(CKB)111090529078494(EBL)224222(OCoLC)55857417(SSID)ssj0000176525(PQKBManifestationID)11170138(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176525(PQKBWorkID)10206901(PQKB)10252907(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056032(MiAaPQ)EBC224222(EXLCZ)9911109052907849420130418d2002|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages and Empires[electronic resource] Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaBerkeley, Calif. ;London University of California Press20021 online resource (398 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22948-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Photography7. 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; IndexFigurative 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.AfricaAfrica - ColonizationAfrica in artAfrica in literatureAfrica in mass mediaPostcolonialismVisual anthropologyVisual anthropology-- AfricaVisual sociologyVisual anthropologyAfricaVisual sociologyAfricaPostcolonialismAfricaAfrica in mass mediaEthnic & Race StudiesHILCCGender & Ethnic StudiesHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCAfricaIn artAfricaIn mass mediaAfricaIn literatureElectronic books.Africa.Africa - Colonization.Africa in art.Africa in literature.Africa in mass media.Postcolonialism.Visual anthropology.Visual anthropology-- Africa.Visual sociology.Visual anthropologyVisual sociologyPostcolonialismAfrica in mass mediaEthnic & Race StudiesGender & Ethnic StudiesSocial Sciences301.096301/.096Landau Paul Stuart970764Kaspin Deborah D970765AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910456414603321Images and Empires2206485UNINA03008nam 22006253u 450 991045423390332120210113165116.01-282-16217-9978661216217690-272-9777-0(CKB)1000000000521502(EBL)622660(OCoLC)669957226(SSID)ssj0000280303(PQKBManifestationID)11240774(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280303(PQKBWorkID)10291733(PQKB)11240975(MiAaPQ)EBC622660(EXLCZ)99100000000052150220130729d1997|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrA History of Literature in the Caribbean[electronic resource] Volume 3: Cross-Cultural StudiesAmsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company19971 online resource (417 p.)Comparative History of Literatures in European LanguagesDescription based upon print version of record.1-55619-603-2 90-272-3444-2 A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE CARIBBEAN; Editorial page; Title page; LCC Data; General preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Region; Preliminary Approaches; Literary Creoleness and Chaos Theory; Problematics of Literary Historiography; Literature and Popular Culture; Carnival and Carnivalization; Gender and Identity; The Caliban Complex; Genre and Postcoloniality; Cross-Cultural Currents and Conundrums; Index to NamesCross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and regional studies of the Caribbean and the Americas, Cross-Cultural Studies illuminates the interrelations between and among Europe, the Caribbean islands, Africa, and the American continents from the late fifteenth century to the present. Scholars from five continents Comparative History of Literatures in European LanguagesCaribbean literature -- History and criticismLiterature - GeneralHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCElectronic books.Caribbean literature -- History and criticism.Literature - GeneralLanguages & Literatures809/.89729Arnold A. James916142Dash J. MichaelRodriguez-Luis JulioArnold A. JamesAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454233903321A History of Literature in the Caribbean2053962UNINA