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To Be Nsala's Daughter - Decomposing the Colonial Gaze (Paperback)
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To Be Nsala's Daughter - Decomposing the Colonial Gaze (Paperback)
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In To Be Nsala's Daughter, Cherie N. Rivers shows how colonial
systems of normalized violence condition the way we see and,
through collaboration with contemporary Congolese artists, imagines
ways we might learn to see differently. Rivers focuses on a
photograph of a Congolese man, Nsala, looking at the disembodied
hand and foot of his daughter, which were removed as punishment for
his failure to deliver the requisite amount of rubber in King
Leopold's Congo. This photograph, taken by British missionary Alice
Seeley Harris, featured prominently in abolitionist campaigns to
end colonial atrocities in Central Africa in the early twentieth
century. But in addition to exposing the visible violence of
colonialism, Rivers argues, this photograph also exposes the
invisible-and continued-violence of the colonial gaze. With a
poetic, personal collage of stories and images, To Be Nsala's
Daughter traces the past and present of the colonial gaze both in
Congo and in the author's lived experience as a mixed-race Black
woman in the United States.
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