Images and empires
Subtitle: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa
By: edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
Contributors: Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-; Kaspin, Deborah D., 1953-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Visual anthropology -- Africa; Visual sociology -- Africa; Africa -- Colonization; Postcolonialism -- Africa; Africa in literature; Africa in mass media; Africa -- In art
Genres: In art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau; title: "Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke; title: The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn; title: Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt; title: Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan; title: Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau; title: Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa; title: Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal; title: "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon; title: Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir; title: The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes; title: Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick; title: Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable; title: Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.