03159nam 22006374a 450 991081554090332120200520144314.00-520-92729-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)9911109052907849420011214d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages and empires visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (398 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22948-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) 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.Visual anthropologyAfricaVisual sociologyAfricaPostcolonialismAfricaAfricaColonizationAfricaIn artAfricaIn literatureAfricaIn mass mediaVisual anthropologyVisual sociologyPostcolonialism301/.096Landau Paul Stuart1962-970764Kaspin Deborah D.1953-970765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815540903321Images and empires4102569UNINA