Lumumba in the arts / edited by Matthias De Groof.

• Introduction by Matthias De Groof – The Iconography of Patrice Emery Lumumba -- PART 1 – LUMUMBA IN HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM BÊTE NOIRE TO BEATIFICATION -- History as Spectacle /?Isabelle de Rezende -- Lumumba, a Never-ending Tragedy and the Unfulfilled Mourning Process of Colonisation / Jean Omasombo Tshonda -- A History of Glory and Dignity: Patrice Lumumba in Historical Imagination and Postcolonial Genealogies / Jean Omasombo Tshonda -- Patrice Lumumba and the Past Conditional: The Virtual Reality of a Martyr / Jean Omasombo Tshonda -- The History of Patrice Lumumba’s Historiography / Elikia M'Bokolo, interviewed by Julien Truddaïu & Matthias De Groof -- GALLERY SECTION -- PART 2 – ICONOGRAPHY OF LUMUMBA -- ?Cinema -- Lumumba in Cinema / Matthias De Groof -- It’s About the Image / Matthias De Groof -- ? Lumumba entre deux genres: Peck’s Filmic Diptych / Karen Bouwer -- The Masks of the Savage: Lumumba and the Independence of the Congo / Rosario Giordano -- Imagining Lumumba / Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, interviewed by Matthias De Groof -- Theatre -- Lumumba on Stage: X Times a Murder / Piet Defraeye -- Photography -- Picturing Lumumba: Framed in Colonial Time / Mark Sealy -- Poetry -- Tributes to Patrice Lumumba in the Poetry of the American Continent, 1961-1966 / Mathieu Zana Etambala -- Comics -- Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Figure of Lumumba as Decolonial Counterpoint in Nicolas Pitz’s Comics Les Jardins du Congo (2013) / Véronique Bragard -- Music -- The Figurative Representation of Lumumba in Popular Music / Léon Tsambu -- Lumumba in the Hood: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba in Rap Music since 1990 / Gert Huskens and Idesbald Goddeeris -- Painting -- A Congolese Hero to the Oppressed Peoples of the World: Lumumba, from Christlike Martyr to Guide for the Future / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Conversations / Tshibumba Kanda Matulu and Johannes Fabian -- My Pauline and Your Patrice / Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, interviewed by Matthias De Groof -- Public space -- Official Miniatures: The Figure of Patrice Lumumba in the Global and the National Contexts / Pierre Petit -- Representing Lumumba (1956-1961): The Twists and Turns of Belgian Colonial Propaganda / Julien Truddaïu -- Down Lumumba Lane / Robbert Jacobs -- Lumumba’s Bike: A Rhizomatic Walk in the Park / Piet Defraeye -- Shilatembo / Epilogue by Matthias De Groof ?. 

• It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in public space. Reverting to either beatifying or diabolising his persona, no art form has been able to escape and remain indifferent to Lumumba. Artists observe the memory and the unresolved suffering that inscribed itself both upon Lumumba?s body and within the history of Congo. If Lumumba - as an icon - lives on today, it is because the need for decolonisation does as well.0Rather than seeking to unravel the truth of actual events surrounding the historical Lumumba, this book engages with his representations. What is more, it considers every historiography as inherently embedded in iconography. Film scholars, art critics, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists discuss the rich iconographic heritage inspired by Lumumba. Furthermore, 'Lumumba's Iconography in the Arts' offers unique testimonies by a number of artists who have contributed to Lumumba's polymorphic iconography, such as Marlène Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Raoul Peck, and Tshibumba Matulu, and includes contributions by such highly acclaimed scholars as Gayatri Spivak, Johannes Fabian, Bogumil Jewsiewicky, and Elikia M'Bokolo. 

Ämnesord

Art and state  -- Congo (Democratic Republic) (LCSH)

Congo (Democratic Republic)  -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. (LCSH)

1960-1965  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Pictorial works.  (fast)

Personnamn

Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 -- Pictorial works.

Klassifikation

DT658.2.L85 (LCC)

967.5103092 (DDC)

Kpdaa (kssb/8 (machine generated))