Visualizing empire: Africa, Europe and the politics of representation

Abstract

"The essays in this book 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 documents and media-photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters, advertisements, and children's games-related to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French Empire"--

Contents

Introduction: Visualizing empire / Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson and Dominic Thomas -- French Colonial collections at the Getty Research Institute / Frances Terpak -- Documenting (post)colonial visual histories: The global impact of the ACHAC Research Group / Pascal Blanchard and Dominic Thomas -- Decolonizing the ACHAC Collection / Patricia A. Morton -- Fragments of empire : Ephemera, toys, and the dynamics of colonial memory / Charles Forsdick -- Intersecting legacies of bandes dessinées and Belgian colonial instruction : Les aventures de Mbumbulu in nos images (1948-55) / Peter J. Bloom -- French colonialism : The rules of the game / Dominic Thomas -- Envisioning the desert: The Sahara and French colonial visual culture / Michelle H. Craig -- Representations of the tirailleur sénégalais and World War I / David Murphy -- On posters and postures : Colonial enlistment posters and the nationalist imagination in France / Lauren Taylor -- La France et ses colonies : Mapping, representing, and visualizing empire / Steven Nelson.