Lumumba in the arts / edited by Matthias De Groof.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Groof, Matthias, editor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961.

Art and state--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Art and state.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961--Pictorial works.

Lumumba, Patrice.

Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.

History.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

463 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, map, portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2020]

Summary:

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in public space. Reverting to either beatifying or diabolising his persona, no art form has been able to escape and remain indifferent to Lumumba. Artists observe the memory and the unresolved suffering that inscribed itself both upon Lumumba's body and within the history of Congo. If Lumumba - as an icon - lives on today, it is because the need for decolonisation does as well. Rather than seeking to unravel the truth of actual events surrounding the historical Lumumba, this book engages with his representations. What is more, it considers every historiography as inherently embedded in iconography. Film scholars, art critics, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists discuss the rich iconographic heritage inspired by Lumumba. Furthermore, 'Lumumba's Iconography in the Arts' offers unique testimonies by a number of artists who have contributed to Lumumba's polymorphic iconography, such as Marlène Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Raoul Peck, and Tshibumba Matulu, and includes contributions by such highly acclaimed scholars as Gayatri Spivak, Johannes Fabian, Bogumil Jewsiewicky, and Elikia M'Bokolo.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 LUMUMBA IN HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM BETE NOIRE TO BEATIFICATION

History as Spectacle / Isabelle de Rezende

Lumumba, a Never-ending Tragedy and the Unfulfilled Mourning Process of Colonisation / Jean Omasombo Tshonda

A History of Glory and Dignity: Patrice Lumumba in Historical Imagination and Postcolonial Genealogies / Pedro Monaville

Patrice Lumumba and the Past Conditional: The Virtual Reality of a Martyr / Christopher L. Miller

The History of Patrice Lumumba's Historiography / Matthias De Groof

Gallery Section

pt. 2 ICONOGRAPHY OF LUMUMBA

Cinema

Lumumba in Cinema / Matthias De Groof

It's About the Image / Raoul Peck

Lumumba entre deux genres: Peck's Filmic Diptych / Karen Bouwer

The Masks of the Savage: Lumumba and the Independence of the Congo / Rosario Giordano

Imagining Lumumba / Matthias De Groof

Theatre

Lumumba on Stage: X Times a Murder / Piet Defraeye

Photography

Picturing Lumumba: Framed in Colonial Time / Mark Sealy

Poetry

Tributes to Patrice Lumumba in the Poetry of the American Continent, 1961-1966 / Mathieu Zana Etambala

Comics

Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Figure of Lumumba as Decolonial Counterpoint in Nicolas Pitz's Comics Les Jardins du Congo (2013) / Veronique Bragard

Music

The Figurative Representation of Lumumba in Popular Music / Leon Tsambu

Lumumba in the Hood: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba in Rap Music since 1990 / Idesbald Goddeeris

Painting

A Congolese Hero to the Oppressed Peoples of the World: Lumumba, from Christlike Martyr to Guide for the Future / Bogumil Jewsiewicki

Conversations / Johannes Fabian

Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, interviewed by Matthias De Groof-My Pauline and Your Patrice

Public space

Official Miniatures: The Figure of Patrice Lumumba in the Global and the National Contexts / Pierre Petit

Representing Lumumba (1956-1961): The Twists and Turns of Belgian Colonial Propaganda / Julien Truddaiu

Down Lumumba Lane / Robbert Jacobs

Lumumba's Bike: A Rhizomatic Walk in the Park / Piet Defraeye.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and index.

ISBN:

9789462701748

9462701741

OCLC:

1085637880

Publisher Number:

99987949003