Buch, Englisch, 48 Seiten, Format (B × H): 109 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 58 g
Volume 2
Buch, Englisch, 48 Seiten, Format (B × H): 109 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 58 g
Reihe: Objekte widersprechen - Objects Talk Back
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0755-4
Verlag: Diaphanes Verlag
“Most of the time, it is the power of men that we remember.” With these words, which open Léonora Miano’s text for , an astonishing new narrative unfurls around Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum (present day Cameroon).
The Germans long claimed the object was a gift from King Njoya to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Miano reads “between the lines of beads and cowrie shells” to show the complex intricacies of colonial and gender relations. Dismissing all pretense of egalitarianism between colonizer and colonized, she hones in on the very nature of power—how and by whom it is defined-wielded-subverted.
King Njoya said he “felt like a woman in his relationship with the Germans.” Miano takes this as a prompt to examine contrasting cultural notions of femininity and thus reveals how central women are to the story of the throne. As the very name of the object suggests, it is the power of women we should remember.
Series published by Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
