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Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa
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256x179x20 mm
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Jennifer Bajorek is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College and Research Associate in the VIAD Research Centre, in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. She is also author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony.
List of Illustrations vii A Note on Geography, Spelling, and Language xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. At Least Two Histories of Liberation 1 Part I. What Makes a Popular Photography? 1. Ça bousculait! (It Was Happening!) 41 2. Wild Circulation: Photography as Urban Media 83 3. Decolonizing Print Culture: The Example of Bingo 117 Part II. Republic of Images 4. Africanizing Political Photography 163 5. The Pleasures of State-Sponsored Photography 203 6. African Futures, Lost and Found 240 Notes 265 Bibliography 307 Index 319
Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial politics in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960, showing how photography both reflected and actively contributed to social and political change.