Images and Empires [[electronic resource] ] : Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
| Images and Empires [[electronic resource] ] : Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa |
| Autore | Landau Paul Stuart |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina |
301.096
301/.096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KaspinDeborah D |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-520-92729-X
1-59734-667-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456414603321 |
Landau Paul Stuart
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| Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Images and empires [[electronic resource] ] : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa
| Images and empires [[electronic resource] ] : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa |
| Autore | Landau Paul Stuart <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina |
301.096
301/.096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KaspinDeborah D |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| ISBN |
0-520-92729-X
1-59734-667-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780449303321 |
Landau Paul Stuart <1962->
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| Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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