Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her scholarship draws on extensive study in West Africa, with a focus on western Burkina Faso, as well as archival and object-centered research in Africa, Europe, and North America. She is author of Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa, and she has initiated and codirects the collaborative digital project Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge.
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Preface Acknowledgments Note on Names Introduction 1. Power Associations 2. Assemblages 3. Performers and Performances 4. Unseeing Audiences 5. Komo on Screen Coda Notes Bibliography Index
"Seeing the Unseen's broadest impact will be its revisionist call for scholars to both recognize and abandon the structures of knowledge that have shaped the representation of African histories and worldviews, flattened African identities, and reinforced dangerous misconceptions of African lives as bounded by ethnicity, language, and tradition."-Victoria L. Rovine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill