Memory in crisis : commemoration, visual cultures, and (mis)representation in postcolonial Belgium
This article analyses the role of visual cultures in debates surrounding memories of the Belgian colonial project and its long-term consequences by focusing on a single case study, Barly Baruti’s and Christophe Cassiau-Haurie’s comic Madame Livingstone: Congo, La Grande Guerre (2014). Focusing on how the image-text represents ‘official’ commemoration versus ‘private’ memories in the context of the Belgian colonialism and the First World War in the Great Lakes region, it highlights how a focus on the visual can also function as a counterproduction of images that emphasise the complex and contes... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | GN Anthropology / NDAS / GN |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26597081 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20423 |