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03070aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 C66BC8EA00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 161216t20162016inua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0253022673 020 $a 9780253022677 035 $a (OCoLC)966825524 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d VTU $d YAM $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a fc----- $a f-cf--- $a fc----- 050 4 $a N7399 C6 S77x 2016 082 04 $a 700.96 100 1 $a Strother, Z. S., $e author. 245 10 $a Humor and violence : $b seeing Europeans in Central African art / $c Z.S. Strother. 246 30 $a Seeing Europeans in Central African art 264 1 $a Bloomington : $b Indiana University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xv, 344 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a African expressive cultures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-332) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Warning! What do you see? A white man? Or an overdressed one? -- New commodities on the Loango Coast (1840-1880) -- Depictions of human trafficking on Loango ivories in the 1880s -- Humor in the hygiene of power (ca. 1885-1915) -- By Congolese, for Congolese (1910s-1940s) -- The African victim in the Congolese imaginary (1950s-1997) -- Coda: Congolese perspectives on humor and redemption. 520 $a "Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the psychology of power and resistance that continues to operate in the region today. Her argument is built on a set of works of art and demonstrates the important role that patronage and political and social history played in their creation. Strother conveys Central African ideas about how the therapeutic power of humor can initiate social change and upset power relations between oppressors and oppressed. This analysis plunges seemingly benign figures into a maelstrom of violence and crime -- rape, murder, torture, and forced labor on a massive scale. By restoring the dialectic of humor, this study reveals the complicated psychological codependency of Africans and Europeans over a long period of history and maintains that art plays a mediating function in the mechanics and ethics of power."--Front cover flap. 650 0 $a Art $z Congo (Democratic Republic) 650 0 $a Art $z Congo (Brazzaville) 650 0 $a Europeans in African art. 650 0 $a Wit and humor in art. 650 0 $a Violence in art. 650 0 $a Art $z Africa, Central. 650 0 $a Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Art, African $x Themes, motives. 830 0 $a African expressive cultures. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017025451.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406014745.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C66BC8EA00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search