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Artificial Africas: Colonial Images in the Times of Globalization »

Authors: Ruth Mayer
ISBN-13: 9781584651918, ISBN-10: 1584651911
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

A groundbreaking investigation of Western conceptions of Africa.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	African Adventures
1	Special Effects: Encounters in Africa	25
2	Monkey Business: Of Ape-Men and Man-Apes	48
3	Being Game: The White Hunter and the Crisis of Masculinity	76
4	Colonial Ladies, Global Girls	121
Pt. II	Alternative Africas
5	Free Trade? Postcolonial Empires, Global Corporations	163
6	In Between and Nowhere at All: The Middle Passage Revisited	207
7	Don't Touch! Africa Is a Virus	256
	Roots and Role-Play: A Conclusion	292
	Notes	305
	Bibliography	339
	Filmography	359
	Index	361