Photography and American coloniality : Eliot Elisofon in Africa, 1942-1972 /
"This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon's career as war photographer-corresp...
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | African humanities and the arts.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. En Route from Scandinavia to Africa, 1942-1944: On Becoming a Trickster with a Hungry Camera and a Loud Mouth; Chapter 2. Colonial Travel and Colonial Habits: Early Years, Elisofon in Africa, 1947 and 1951; Chapter 3. African Women Walk, African Men Sit, African Children Are: Gender as Difference, Exclusion, Segregation, and Passage; Chapter 4. From Colony to Colonized: Elisofon Fashioning Nigeria; Chapter 5. Elisofon's and LIFE's Literary Africa: White Mythologies, Racism, and Cold War Politics.
- Chapter 6. The American Broadcasting Company's Africa, 1966-1967: A Shock of Change and an Updated SafariChapter 7. The Cold War Affinity between Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and the United States' Eliot Elisofon; Chapter 8. The Politics of the Black African Heritage Series, 1970-1972; Chapter 9. Elisofon Collecting Artifacts and Elisofon Curated: Colonialist Power; Conclusion; Appendix. LIFE Photo Essays by or with Eliot Elisofon; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
