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˜A œdance of assassins: performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo

/ Allen F. Roberts

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  • Roberts, Allen F. (1945-....), Auteur Idref
    • Language: anglaisCountry: ETATS-UNISPublication: Bloomington (Ind.); Indianapolis (Ind.): Indiana University Press, cop. 2013Description: 1 vol. (X-311 p.); ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul.; 23 cmppn: 168870819 SUDOCISBN: 978-0-253-00743-8 ; 0-253-00743-7 ; 978-0-253-00750-6 ; 0-253-00750-XCollection: African expressive cultures / Patrick McNaughton, editorClassification: 32CD (Republic of Congo), 300 (Social Sciences)Abstract:
    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
    Bibliography: Bibliogr. p. 267-297. Notes bibliogr. IndexSubject - Personal Name: Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918 | Lusinga, 1840-1884 Subject - Topical Name: Belges -- Congo (République démocratique) 19e siècle | Hégémonie -- Congo (République démocratique) 19e siècle | Musées ethnographiques Belgique | Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century | Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century | Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium Subject - Geographical Name: Congo (République démocratique) Colonisation | Congo (République démocratique), Jusqu'à 1908 | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908 List(s) this item appears in: Mission Dakar-Djibouti : contre-enquêtes
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    Bibliogr. p. 267-297. Notes bibliogr. Index

    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

    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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