LEADER 02916nam 22005654a 450 001 9910972733303321 005 20250604164804.0 010 $a052092729X 010 $a9780520927292$b(ebook) 010 $a1597346675 035 $a(CKB)111090529078494 035 $a(EBL)224222 035 $a(OCoLC)55857417 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176525 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170138 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176525 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206901 035 $a(PQKB)10252907 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224222 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529078494 100 $a20011214d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aImages and empires $evisuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /$fedited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2002] 210 4$aŠ2002 215 $a1 online resource (398 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0520229487 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index. 327 $aIllustrations; 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 327 $a7. 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 330 $aFigurative 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. 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xColonization 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a301/.096 702 $aLandau$b Paul Stuart$f1962- 702 $aKaspin$b Deborah D.$f1953- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972733303321 996 $aImages and empires$9271892 997 $aUNINA