A dance of assassins [electronic resource] : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / Allen F. Roberts.

By: Roberts, Allen F, 1945-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: African expressive culturesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013Description: x, 311 p. : ill., map, portISBN: 9780253007599 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Storms, Emile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918 | Lusinga, ca. 1840-1884 | Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century | Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century | Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 325.3493096751 LOC classification: DT654 | .R63 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The "emperor" strikes back. Invitation to a beheading -- A conflict of memories -- Histories made by bodies -- Tropical gothic -- Storms the headhunter. Remembering the dismembered. The rise of a colonial macabre -- Art evo on the Chaussee d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "emperor" strikes back. Invitation to a beheading -- A conflict of memories -- Histories made by bodies -- Tropical gothic -- Storms the headhunter. Remembering the dismembered. The rise of a colonial macabre -- Art evo on the Chaussee d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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