To be Nsala's daughter : decomposing the colonial gaze / Chérie N. Rivers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harris, Alice Seeley.

Documentary photography--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Documentary photography.

Atrocities--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Atrocities.

Violence--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Violence.

Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--To 1908.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1885-1908.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 111 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"To Be Nsala's Daughter revisits the photographic archive of Alice Seeley Harris and the visual projects of colonialism and anti-Blackness. Harris took over a thousand photographs in Congo during the reign of King Léopold II, mostly documenting the atrocities of his regime. While the publication of this violence played an important role in helping to liberate Congo from Belgian rule, Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that they reproduce colonial relations, particularly in their representations of Congolese people as suffering, bewildered, and inferior. The book's title comes from one of Harris's most well-known images, a posed photograph of a Congolese man, Nsala, considering the disembodied hand and foot of his daughter, violently removed from her body as punishment for his failure to deliver the requisite amount of rubber. Ndaliko sees both the act represented in the photograph and the photograph itself as sites of violence. The book documents Ndaliko's attempts to decompose these forms of violence, first, by understanding their logics and then, working with artists and community members in contemporary Congo, offering different ways of documenting and seeing."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Elegy for Nsala

To See Nsala's Daughter

To Decompose

To Replicate

To Contradict

To Create

To Love Nsala's Daughter.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers. To be Nsala's daughter.

ISBN:

9781478023722

1478023724

9781478093039

147809303X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.