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Book Synopsis African Impressions by : Rebekah Mitsein
Download or read book African Impressions written by Rebekah Mitsein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from British interpretations of what Africans said and showed about themselves and their worlds. Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in the British imagination as a completely invented space with no meaningful connection to actual African worlds, or as an inert realm onto which writers projected their expansionist fantasies. With African Impressions, Rebekah Mitsein revises that narrative, demonstrating that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power, geopolitical clout, and religious exceptionalism into Europe long before Europeans entered sub-Saharan Africa. Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa’s gold and the city states along the Niger, to establish a relationship with the Christian kingdom of Prester John, and to discover the source of the Nile. Through an analysis of a range of genres, including travel narratives, geography books, maps, verse, and fiction, Mitsein shows how African strategies of self-representation and European strategies for representing Africa grew increasingly inextricable, as the ideas that Africans presented about themselves and their worlds migrated from contact zones to texts and back again. The geographical narratives that arose from this cycle, which unfolded over hundreds of years, were made to fit expansionist agendas, but they remained rooted in the African worlds and worldviews that shaped them.
Book Synopsis Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now by : Judith B. Hecker
Download or read book Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now written by Judith B. Hecker and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing black-and-white linoleum cuts made at community art centres in the 1960s and 1970s, resistance posters and other political art of the 1980s, and the wide variety of subjects and techniques explored by artists in printships over the last two decades, printmaking has been a driving force in contemporary South African artistic and political expression. Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, introduces the vital role of printmaking through works by more than twenty artists in the Museum's collection. The volume features prints by John Muafangejo and Dan Rakgoathe, a selection of posters produced for anti-apartheid coalitions in the 1980s, and nuanced political work by SueWilliamson, Norman Catherine andWilliam Kentridge. The book features many more recent projects, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of the medium in South Africa today. The work, presented in a generous plate section, is contextualized in an introduction by Judith B. Hecker, and accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, a timeline of relevant events in South African history, and a selected bibliography.
Book Synopsis Impressions of Africa by : Raymond Roussel
Download or read book Impressions of Africa written by Raymond Roussel and published by Calder Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.
Book Synopsis African Missions Impressions of the South, East, and Centre of the Dark Continent by : Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke
Download or read book African Missions Impressions of the South, East, and Centre of the Dark Continent written by Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impressions of Western Africa by : Thomas Joseph Hutchinson
Download or read book Impressions of Western Africa written by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impressions of Western Africa by : Th.J. Hutchinson
Download or read book Impressions of Western Africa written by Th.J. Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impressions of South Africa by : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Download or read book Impressions of South Africa written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impressions of South Africa by : James Bryce
Download or read book Impressions of South Africa written by James Bryce and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power by : Emma Mawdsley
Download or read book India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power written by Emma Mawdsley and published by Fahamu/Pambazuka. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first analyses of contemporary IndianAfrican relations, this detailed book draws upon a collection of case studies that explore interrelated topics such as trade, investment, development aid, civil society relations, security, and geopolitics. While China's relationship to Africa has been thoroughly examined, knowledge and analysis of India's role in Africa has until now been limited. This book fills the gap and compares and contrasts India to China s role as a rising global power in the African continent. "
Download or read book Lasting Impressions written by Jesse Matz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely "impressionistic" about culture today. Jesse Matz considers these two legacies—the positive and the negative—to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.
Book Synopsis Archaeology of African Plant Use by : Chris J Stevens
Download or read book Archaeology of African Plant Use written by Chris J Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.
Book Synopsis South African Supplement to Social Psychology by :
Download or read book South African Supplement to Social Psychology written by and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The South African Law Reports by : Jan Hendrik Gey van Pittius
Download or read book The South African Law Reports written by Jan Hendrik Gey van Pittius and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impressions of My Hometown by : Mzuvukile Maqetuka
Download or read book Impressions of My Hometown written by Mzuvukile Maqetuka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I first came to live in the Graaff Reinet in December 1969 and lived in the location of Masizakhe, which stands for ‘self development’ in the Xhosa language. On arrival I noticed that some of the houses in which the black people lived in were dilapidated, infrastructure was underdeveloped and poverty was rife. I soon came to know that prior to my arrival a Methodist Priest, the Reverend Hermanus and other eighteen or so respectable members of the community were detained and charged for having furthered the aims of the then banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The trickery and astuteness of the special branch police against the detainees turned one against the other where some testified for the apartheid state against Reverend Hermanus and the others. Those who did so led to the disruption of their otherwise decent lives for they became the subject of ridicule in the community thus losing some of the respect that they had prior to their deeds. As to whether they indeed were all members of the PAC has always been a subject of interpretation as some of them refuted having been members nor of any political orgnisation. The special tried the same divisive tactic in the mid 1970’s when they detained a number of young student activists, some of whom belonged to the then South African Student Movement (SASM) and organisation of secondary and high school students. Again five of the student members, Mzuvukile Maqetuka, Mbuyiselo Ralawe, Zolile Maqetuka, Zandisile Pase, Rowena Bolosha and a non-student the late Thabo Nockpal were charged after a long spell in detention and subsequently served an eight month term prison sentence. This time only three members of the detained group were expected to give evidence against the five but refused to sell their soles and dignity, one the late Keith Nqai perjured himself and was sentenced to three months whilst the also refused to evidence and was released. This book not only depicts a photographic journey through Graaff Reinet but resonate the misery, laughter, joy and the political wisdom of a people who made it their duty to develop themselves against all odds and who paid homage to an adage that South Africa and their town in particular belong to all those who live in it provided that all enjoy the equal opportunities that life offers. The book unlike a plethora of others that trace the development of our towns and cities bears testimony and recognises the role played by those who built it – the majestic Dutch Reformed Church forms the pillar of the town, the Methodist Church in the southern part of the location, the Drostdy Hotel in Church Street and the AME Church and all other heritage sites that make Graaff Reinet this ‘Gem of the Karoo’. It captures in a clear and concise manner the uneven development of its various localities. It refutes the notion that it was the Pharaohs who built the pyramids of Egypt. The images in the book tell a story that the author refuses to narrate in words, for he believes that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Mbuyiselo Ralawe Practising Attorney and Political Activist
Book Synopsis A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature by : Alfred Cotgreave
Download or read book A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature written by Alfred Cotgreave and published by London : E. Stock. This book was released on 1900 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pot-pourri Parisien and First Impressions of New York ... by : Ernest Bryham Parsons
Download or read book Pot-pourri Parisien and First Impressions of New York ... written by Ernest Bryham Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
