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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Images and empires. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002 (DLC) 2001008248 (OCoLC)48620274 |
| Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Stuart Landau; Deborah D Kaspin |
| ISBN: | 9780520927292 052092729X 141752264X 9781417522644 |
| OCLC Number: | 55857417 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 380 p.) : ill. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin. |
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