The colonial art of demonizing others: a global perspective

by Lezra, Esther

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Full title :The colonial art of demonizing others : a global perspective / Esther Lezra.

Summary

"The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848"--

"The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848. This book argues that Europe's archives of self-understanding are haunted by the traces of Black radical resistance. Just as Europe's economy came to depend upon the raw materials, markets, and labor it secured from the colonies, European culture came to be based on fantasies and phobias derived from the unruly and unmanageable aftershocks of colonial violence and counter-insurgency. Rather than assert that European nationalist and abolitionist discourses are on the side of emancipatory movements, the book shows the limits of the promise of that discourse, and the continuation of those limitations that makes the continued pursuit of that promise a questionable activity. This book does not wish to salvage the emancipatory promises of European discourse, but considers the more difficult and uncomfortable question of why emancipatory movements represented the struggles of anticolonial and radical blackness the way they did."--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 151 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415742269, 0415742269
oclc:ocn859585011
LC Classification:JA84.E9
Dewey Decimal:323.1196

Transfigurations and Mistranslations of Black Freedom Culture in Narratives of the Colonial Era -- Jean François, the Spanish Constitutional Debates and the Monkey of Seville -- Solitude : Translating the Abject into Agent -- The Task of Transfiguration.

Subjects

Black people in art Europe Europe -- Race relations Europe -- Relations raciales History Imperialism--Psychological aspects Impérialisme -- Aspect psychologique Personnes noires dans l'art Political science Political Science -- General Political science -- History -- 18th ce… Political science -- History -- 19th ce… Race relations