Jennifer Bajorek

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Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial politics in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960, showing how photography both reflected and actively contributed to social and political change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003663
• ISBN-10: 1478003669
• Artikelnr.: 55388519

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Bajorek is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College and Research Associate in the VIAD Research Centre, in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. She is also author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
A Note on Geography, Spelling, and Language  xiii
Preface  xvii
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. At Least Two Histories of Liberation  1
Part I. What Makes a Popular Photography?
1. Ça bousculait! (It Was Happening!)  41
2. Wild Circulation: Photography as Urban Media  83
3. Decolonizing Print Culture: The Example of Bingo  117
Part II. Republic of Images
4. Africanizing Political Photography  163
5. The Pleasures of State-Sponsored Photography  203
6. African Futures, Lost and Found  240
Notes  265
Bibliography  307
Index 319