Yolanda Covington-Ward

Gesture and Power

Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yolanda Covington-Ward is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360209
• ISBN-10: 0822360209
• Artikelnr.: 42283732

Autorenporträt

Yolanda Covington-Ward

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Gesture and Power  1
I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies
1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies  37
II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo
2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial
Belgian Congo, 1921  71
3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu  107
III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo
4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese
Seko  137
5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered
Nationalisms  165
IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future
6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride,
Transforming Modern Society  187
Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and
Power  227
Glossary  233
Notes  235
References  253
Index  275