1st Edition
Contested Representations Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa'
By Shelly R. Butler
Copyright 1999
152 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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The controversy surrounding the significant " Into the Heart of Africa " exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial... Read more
1. INTO THE HEART OF AFRICA AND THE STATUS QUO: The Status Quo, Toward a Reflexive Museology, Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact 2. Museums, Contradictions of Resistance, Racism and Multiculturalism 3. VARIOUS POSITIONS: RESPONSES TO THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: Authority at/of the ROM, Classroom Confrontations, Media 4. Conclusions, The Black Community: Protest and Process, Victims and Victimization, Outcomes 5. ENTERING THE DEBATES: Coming Into the Field, Museum Ethnography 6. THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES: Performing Resistance, The Politics of Contestation, Democratizing 8. PRELUDE TO THE CONTROVERSY: The Ambiguity of Irony, Power Relations and Public Culture, The Politics of Consultation
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Shelley Ruth Butler
