A dance of assassins [electronic resource] : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / Allen F. Roberts.
Material type: TextSeries: African expressive cultures | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)ISBN:- 9780253007599
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
- Lusinga, ca. 1840-1884
- Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918
- Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium
- Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- 325.3493096751 23
- DT654 .R63 2013
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.
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