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Title:

Troubling images : visual culture and the politics of Afrikaner nationalism / edited by Federico Freschi, Brenda Schmahmannand Lize van Robbroeck.

Publisher:

Wits University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Afrikaners--Ethnic identity--South Africa.
Nationalism and art--South Africa.
Nationalism and architecture--South Africa.
Visual sociology--South Africa.
Politics and government.
Afrikaners--Ethnic identity.
Art and society.
Nationalism.
South Africa.

Other Authors:

Freschi, Federico, editor.
Schmahmann, Brenda, 1960- editor.
Van Robbroeck, Lize, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part One. Assent and dissent through fine art and architecture -- Part Two. Sculptures on university campuses -- Part Three. Photography, identity and nationhood -- Part Four. Deploying mass media and popular visual culture.

Summary:

"Troubling Images explores how art and visual culture helped to secure hegemonic claims to the nation-state via the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1776144759
9781776144754
1776144716
9781776144716

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142085304

LCCN:

2020398312

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)