Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.

Other author Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-
Other author Kaspin, Deborah D., 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxvi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Visual anthropology--Africa.
Visual sociology--Africa.
Postcolonialism--Africa.
Africa--Colonization.
Africa--In art.
Africa--In literature.
Africa--In mass media.

Contents Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- "Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn -- Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal -- "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon -- Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir -- The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes -- Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick -- Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable -- Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.
LCCN 2001008248
ISBN0520229487 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520229495 (paper : alk. paper)

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