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Ambivalent
Photography and Visibility in African History
Sprache: Englisch

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Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.
Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.
Über den Autor

Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has published extensively on colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa.

Gary Minkley is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Social Change in the History Department at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Recent publications include the coauthored Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Africa and the Ambivalence of Seeing (patricia hayes and gary minkley)

PART 1 UNFIXING RACE AND VISUALITY: THE COLONIAL TEMPORARY

Chapter 1 Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa (isabelle de rezende)

Chapter 2 Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History (patricia hayes)

Chapter 3 Unstable Forms

Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa (ingrid masondo)

Chapter 4 The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa (gary minkley)

Chapter 5 Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique (drew thompson)

Chapter 6 Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 (vilho shigwedha)

PART 2 OSCILLATIONS: SURFACES AND DEPTHS

Chapter 7 Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia (napandulwe shiweda)

Chapter 8 The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach (phindi mnyaka)

Chapter 9 Photographing Aso. Ebì Of Surfacism and Digitality (okechukwu nwafor)

Chapter 10 Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria (george emeka agbo)

Chapter 11 Mirrors and Waters: the Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults (jung ran forte)

An Expanded Milieu

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 376
Reihe: New African Histories
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821423943
ISBN-10: 0821423940
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Hayes, Patricia
Minkley, Gary
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
New African Histories
Maße: 251 x 176 x 22 mm
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2019
Gewicht: 0,88 kg
preigu-id: 116732197
Über den Autor

Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has published extensively on colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa.

Gary Minkley is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Social Change in the History Department at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Recent publications include the coauthored Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Africa and the Ambivalence of Seeing (patricia hayes and gary minkley)

PART 1 UNFIXING RACE AND VISUALITY: THE COLONIAL TEMPORARY

Chapter 1 Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa (isabelle de rezende)

Chapter 2 Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History (patricia hayes)

Chapter 3 Unstable Forms

Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa (ingrid masondo)

Chapter 4 The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa (gary minkley)

Chapter 5 Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique (drew thompson)

Chapter 6 Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 (vilho shigwedha)

PART 2 OSCILLATIONS: SURFACES AND DEPTHS

Chapter 7 Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia (napandulwe shiweda)

Chapter 8 The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach (phindi mnyaka)

Chapter 9 Photographing Aso. Ebì Of Surfacism and Digitality (okechukwu nwafor)

Chapter 10 Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria (george emeka agbo)

Chapter 11 Mirrors and Waters: the Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults (jung ran forte)

An Expanded Milieu

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 376
Reihe: New African Histories
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821423943
ISBN-10: 0821423940
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Hayes, Patricia
Minkley, Gary
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
New African Histories
Maße: 251 x 176 x 22 mm
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2019
Gewicht: 0,88 kg
preigu-id: 116732197
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