A dance of assassins / Allen F. Roberts

Public ISBD Titre : A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Allen F. Roberts (1945...), Auteur Editeur : Bloomington - Indiana [États-Unis] : Indiana University Press Année de publication : c2013 Collection : African expressive cultures Importance : 1 vol. (X-311 p.) Présentation : ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-253-00750-6 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Belges -- Histoire -- 19e siecle -- Congo (République démocratique) ; Congo (République démocratique) -- Colonisation ; Congo (République démocratique) -- Histoire -- Avant 1908 ; Hégémonie -- Histoire -- 19e siecle -- Congo (République démocratique) ; Lusinga (ca.1840-1884) ; Musées et collections ethnographiques ; Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph (1846-1918) Index. décimale : 325.3493096751 Résumé : A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today Note de contenu : 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 évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo [texte imprimé] / Allen F. Roberts (1945...), Auteur . - Bloomington - Indiana (États-Unis) : Indiana University Press, c2013 . - 1 vol. (X-311 p.) : ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm. - (African expressive cultures) . ISBN : 978-0-253-00750-6 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Belges -- Histoire -- 19e siecle -- Congo (République démocratique) ; Congo (République démocratique) -- Colonisation ; Congo (République démocratique) -- Histoire -- Avant 1908 ; Hégémonie -- Histoire -- 19e siecle -- Congo (République démocratique) ; Lusinga (ca.1840-1884) ; Musées et collections ethnographiques ; Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph (1846-1918) Index. décimale : 325.3493096751 Résumé : A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today Note de contenu : 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 évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead

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