{"product_id":"analogue-africa-notes-on-the-anti-colonial-imagination","title":"ANALOGUE AFRICA, notes on the anti-colonial imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e215pp., illus., hardback, d.w.,\u003c\/em\u003e Verso, London, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781804295946\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this incisive collection of essays Jeremy Harding \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecelebrates the ingenuity with which African artists\u003cspan\u003e – and a handful of Europeans – have reimagined the colonial encounter and voiced their impatience with white minority rule. Among the filmmakers, photographers, writers and painters discussed are William Kentridge, David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Seydou Keïta, Sanlé Sory, Sarah Maldoror, John Akomfrah and Binyavanga Wainaina.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarding also argues that Western museums with priceless African holdings – the British Museum, the Musée du Quai Branly, the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium – are now the latest sites of a struggle over the colonial past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jeremy Harding's essays and reportage have established him as one of our most remarkable writers, equally fluent in the languages of aesthetics and international affairs. In \u003ci\u003eAnalogue Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, he is writing at the peak of his powers: eloquent, perceptive, attentive at once to questions of form and to the moral and political stakes involved in the creation of postcolonial culture.\" Adam Shatz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel's Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeremy Harding \u003c\/b\u003eis a contributing editor at the\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBorder Vigils\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003eSmall Wars, Small Mercies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harding (J.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42330650279982,"sku":null,"price":530.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/3182\/3662\/files\/AnalogueAfrica.webp?v=1778157669","url":"https:\/\/clarkesbooks.co.za\/products\/analogue-africa-notes-on-the-anti-colonial-imagination","provider":"Clarke's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}