04044nam 22009373u 450 991078044930332120230418001755.00-520-92729-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 literatureAfrica.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 Stuart1962-970764Kaspin Deborah D970765AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910780449303321Images and empires3803905UNINA