Humor and violence: seeing Europeans in Central African art
"Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the ps...
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis
Indiana University Press
[2016]
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| Schriftenreihe: | African expressive cultures
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the psychology of power and resistance that continues to operate in the region today. Her argument is built on a set of works of art and demonstrates the important role that patronage and political and social history played in their creation. Strother conveys Central African ideas about how the therapeutic power of humor can initiate social change and upset power relations between oppressors and oppressed. This analysis plunges seemingly benign figures into a maelstrom of violence and crime -- rape, murder, torture, and forced labor on a massive scale. By restoring the dialectic of humor, this study reveals the complicated psychological codependency of Africans and Europeans over a long period of history and maintains that art plays a mediating function in the mechanics and ethics of power."--Front cover flap |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 344 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780253022677 |
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| contents | Introduction -- Warning! What do you see? A white man? Or an overdressed one? -- New commodities on the Loango Coast (1840-1880) -- Depictions of human trafficking on Loango ivories in the 1880s -- Humor in the hygiene of power (ca. 1885-1915) -- By Congolese, for Congolese (1910s-1940s) -- The African victim in the Congolese imaginary (1950s-1997) -- Coda: Congolese perspectives on humor and redemption |
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