Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon

by Florence Bernault

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001585
• ISBN13: 9781478001584
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"