Contested Representations: Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' - Hardcover

Shelley Butler

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9789057005220: Contested Representations: Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa'
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9057005220 ISBN 13: 9789057005220
Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony.
By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

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Shelley Ruth Butler

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9057005220
ISBN 13 
9789057005220
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
148
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  • 3.62 out of 5 stars
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