Visualizing Empire - Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
Visualizing Empire - Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects…
Specifikacia Visualizing Empire - Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
Visualizing Empire - Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth.
Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France's colonies across the seas.These studies draw from the rich documents and media--photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters,