Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely
unexamined, role in Africa--mediating relationships between the
colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the
global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and
power of images in African history and culture. Paul S. Landau and
Deborah Kaspin have assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays
dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema,
cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world
fairs, and museum exhibits. The contributors, experts in a number
of disciplines, discuss various modes of visuality in Africa and of
Africa, investigating the interplay of visual images with personal
identity, class, gender, politics, and wealth.
Integral to the argument of the book are over seventy
contextualized illustrations. Africans saw foreigners in margarine
wrappers, Tintin cartoons, circus posters, and Hollywood movies;
westerners gleaned impressions of Africans from colonial
exhibitions, Tarzan films, and naturalist magazines. The authors
provide concrete examples of the construction of Africa's image in
the modern world. They reveal how imperial iconographies sought to
understand, deny, control, or transform authority, as well as the
astonishing complexity and hybridity of visual communication within
Africa itself.
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