African Arts articles from September 2005

African Arts archives from September 2005

Trauma and representation in Africa.(first word)
September 22, 2005... People interested in Africa often lament popular representations of it. In the United States, for example, Africa continues to be represented as a dark and violent space in both mainstream media and popular culture. These depictions often fail...

Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Michael D. Harris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 296 pp., 48 color and 58 b/w illustrations, notes, index. $34.95 hardcover: The title of this book invites extended semiotic meditation, for the word "colored"...

The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art Edited by Simon Ottenberg Seattle: University of Washington Press and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2002. 330 pp. 46 b/w & 35 color photos. $40.00 softcover As...

Johanna M.C. Agthe: 1941-2005.(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... Professor Till Forster (University of Basel): Johanna Agthe had been a distant colleague until I took over Iwalewa-Haus in Bayreuth from Ulli Beier in 1997. Indeed, I had known her publications since I had been an undergraduate student and...

Iconic autopsy: postmortem portraits of Bantu Stephen Biko.(political instincts)
September 22, 2005... Bantu Stephen Biko, one of South Africa's most famous sons, died at the hands of policemen on September 12, 1977. Soon after, an autopsy was conducted and photographs were taken. Images from this report were leaked to the South African press...

Witnessing trauma in post-apartheid South Africa: the question of generational responsibility.(Trauma and Representation in Africa)
September 22, 2005... In a 1997 critique of what he presumes to be unperturbed white confidence and arrogance in postapartheid South Africa, South African US-based scholar Grant Farred wrote that White South Africans are singularly disqualified as nonnatives ad...

Invisible again: Rwanda and representation after genocide.(Trauma and Representation in Africa)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... "Never again became wherever again." President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (Daily Mail and Guardian, May 1, 2000) "Never again" Banner at Kigali commemoration of the genocide (BBC News April 10, 2004) The Rwandan genocide of 1994...

Trauma, testimony, and truth: contemporary South African artists speak.(Trauma and Representation in Africa)(Antjie Krog)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... She is sitting behind a microphone, dressed in beret or kopdeok [headscarf] and her Sunday best. Everybody recognizes her. Truth has become Woman. Her voice, distorted behind her rough hand, has undermined Man as the source of truth. And yet....

Stitches as sutures: trauma and recovery in works by women in the Mapula Embroidery Project.(Trauma and Representation in Africa)(Critical essay)(Cover Story)
September 22, 2005... The Mapula Embroidery Project is in the Winterveld, an area that is about 45 km (28 miles) north of Pretoria in South Africa. When Mapula (meaning "mother of rain") was started in 1991, the Winterveld was part of the so-called homeland of...

Narrating trauma as modernity: Kenyan artists and the American embassy bombing.(Trauma and Representation in Africa)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... In Modernity at Large, Arjun Appadurai posits media as one of the major diacritics which works to constitute modern subjectivity (1996:3). How might media be used to express the experience of a national trauma? And how does a national...

Lechwe Trust Collection.
September 22, 2005... Lusaka National Museum January 27 March 17, 2005 A government cultural officer of immense proportions bedecked with gold rings, polka dots, and pinstripes puffs a Cuban cigar as he pushes his trolley of Scottish whisky, French perfume, and...

Current events.
September 22, 2005... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora September 2, 2005-December 31,2005 Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco, CA ...

Textiles Bogolan du Mali.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Textiles Bogolan du Mali Pauline Duponchel Collections du MEN 8. Neuchatel, Switzerland: Musee d'Ethnographie, 2004. 336 pp., 33 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Euros 15.00, Swiss francs 23.40, paper This French-language...

Focus on African films.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Focus on African Films Edited by Francoise Pfaff Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 327 pp., 30 b/w photos, bibliographies, index. $65 hardcover. Francoise Pfaff's previous work includes Twenty-five Black African...