- Description
- xiii, 111 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Elegy for Nsala -- To See Nsala's Daughter -- To Decompose -- To Replicate -- To Contradict -- To Create -- To Love Nsala's Daughter.
- ISBN
- 9781478019091
- 1478019093
- 9781478016458
- 1478016450
- 9781478023722 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022026526
- OCLC
- YBP 2022026526
- Author
Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers, author.
- Title
To be Nsala's daughter : decomposing the colonial gaze / Chérie N. Rivers.
- Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
To 1908
- Other Form:
Online version: Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers To be Nsala's daughter Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478023722 (DLC) 2022026527