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..., to examine the nature Santa Barbara. His book Empire, try to make films like Gaston. I just try to be myself and extent of compromise. It is the responsibility Representation and Colonial Logic and African and make films; in this way, our films are going...

... art and reviews their relevance within the artistic landscape of Cape Verde. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 César Schofield Cardoso Cardosa’s Républika Cardosa’s Ferrugem colonial representation postcinema ...

... reclaims the African subject in portraits that contest traditional, colonial, and contemporary histories. Ultimately, Kehinde Wiley’s dialogue with Africa complicates identity and representation, repositioning the African subject within the history of art to challenge the normalizing power of figuration...

... of representations of the black figure and examines the continuation of, as well as the challenges to, certain tropes that have been used to frame blackness, femaleness, and tropicality. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 Barbados mulatto Agostino Brunias colonial art...

...Tamar Garb This essay looks at the way in which the history of South Africa is imprinted in representations of place. It examines images of the land as sites of inscription, exploring the residue of deep colonial history as well as the more immediate past of apartheid on the signs and signifiers...

... these works in the context of the epic 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale Internationale, contemporary representations of Africans and African Americans in French visual culture, and Hayden’s acknowledged penchant for visual satire, I contend that the exaggerated physiognomy and general ridiculousness...

...Renée Mussai Born in 1929 in Accra, then the Gold Coast colony, James Barnor began his career in photography typically, as an apprentice in a colonial portrait studio of a relative, his cousin J. P. Dodoo. But in a unique career spanning more than six decades, bridging continents and photographic...

... harmonies, as well as the postcolonial reworking of the subject of colonial and postcolonial edges that do not match, into a col• oppressed attempts significant transla• representation? lage or assemblage. It emphasizes...

... of the Earth, 2. African Diaspora, ed. Laurie Ann Farrell (New York: Museum for 3 Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya, Colonial Imaginary, African Art, 2003), 166 67. Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation 16 See John Picton, Colonial Pretense and African Resistance, in the Works of African...

... subjectivity.” Departing from binary paradigms in which Africa is “traditional,” Europe “modern,” and imperialism “modernizing,” Sembène saw his society as a space imbued with plural modernities; his historical narratives not only contest the usual representations of colonial Africa but also demystify all...

... and sex, and given that sex and pleasure are also connected, the nakedness depicted in Bopape s per- formance enables the opportunity to engage plea- sure in unexpected ways. Although nakedness and pleasure are connected, the colonial representation- al politics constructed black nakedness as only one...

...., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader To order, please call (London: Routledge, 1995), 34. 888-651-0122 46 Francoise Lionnet, Post-Colonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995), 6–7...

...Françoise Vergès The objective of the organized visits titled “The Slave in the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity (2012)” was to explore how slavery had contaminated Europeans’ tastes, ways of living, consuming, receiving, and representation of themselves. Looking at the paintings featuring men smoking...

... and distinctive modes of visual representation within the systemic regime of colonial culture. The following analy• sis of Enwonwu's reconfiguration of indigenous aesthetics (in this instance, a pan-Africanist amalgamation...

... of West African jects, located in strategic relationships between center and architecture. As King has noted, the culture of the postcolonial is periphery. Almost all the published representations emerged built on the economic and political networks of the colonial sys...

..., partly because it concerning African or African diasporic identities, cul• forced artists to ask profound questions about the roots tures, and art practice. The history of photographic of representation and partly because it changed the way practices in Africa and its diaspora are no exception...

... or The venue, the São Jorge cinema, a major theater related subjects proposed for the panel discussions in Lisbon that is now under the auspices of the City (“African Film, Post-­colonialism and the Aesthetic Council, offered possibilities for people to social- of Representation Strategies,” “Cinema...

..., Searle imaginatively dismantles the colonial structures of Africa created a cultural context wherein the race, gender privileges and stereotypes in the representation• al terrain. Photography, in a South African...

.... The figure of the Mandingas, originating from interactions with Guineans, exemplifies a caricatured representation of Africans that harks back to colonial prejudices.32 In Cape Verde, this symbolic figure reflects the region s intricate historical relationship with colonialism, where Cape Verdeans were...

... colonial legacy inherited from the United States and the American Colonization Society (ACS).2 He saw Liberia as “a colony for the free colored people...