Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea
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Data de Publicação: | 2002 |
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Resumo: | This paper explores some aspects of the ambiguity of power relations during the colonial period that still influence the postcolonial construction of the nation. The colonial encounter led to the confrontation of local political institutions with the colonial project of cultural and political hegemony. Local intermediaries were particularly sensitive to this mutual game of domination, integration and exclusion. Focusing on the iconographic representations of a category of such intermediaries, the régulos or local chiefs in Guinea-Bissau – both from the local point of view and from the colonialist one – we have access to a mirror of the empire: the perverse and continual negotiation of identities and references between colonizers and colonized. |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial GuineaGuinea-BissauColonialismRégulosThis paper explores some aspects of the ambiguity of power relations during the colonial period that still influence the postcolonial construction of the nation. The colonial encounter led to the confrontation of local political institutions with the colonial project of cultural and political hegemony. Local intermediaries were particularly sensitive to this mutual game of domination, integration and exclusion. Focusing on the iconographic representations of a category of such intermediaries, the régulos or local chiefs in Guinea-Bissau – both from the local point of view and from the colonialist one – we have access to a mirror of the empire: the perverse and continual negotiation of identities and references between colonizers and colonized.Neste artigo são explorados alguns aspectos da ambiguidade das relações de poder do período colonial, cuja influência está ainda presente na construção pós-colonial da nação. O encontro colonial provocou um confronto entre as instituições políticas locais e o projecto colonial de hegemonia cultural e política. Os intermediários locais foram particularmente sensíveis a este jogo mútuo de dominação, integração e exclusão. Ao centrarmo-nos nas representações iconográficas de uma categoria desses intermediários – os régulos, chefes locais na Guiné-Bissau –, tanto sob o ponto de vista local como sob o ponto de vista colonialista, temos acesso a um espelho do império: a constante e perversa negociação de identidades e referências entre colonizadores e colonizados.CRIA2014-01-17T16:38:42Z2002-01-01T00:00:00Z2002info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/6214eng2182-2891Carvalho, Clarainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-09T17:23:47Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/6214Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:10:53.119343Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea Carvalho, Clara Guinea-Bissau Colonialism Régulos |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Ambiguous representations: power and mimesis in colonial Guinea |
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Carvalho, Clara |
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Carvalho, Clara |
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Carvalho, Clara |
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Guinea-Bissau Colonialism Régulos |
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Guinea-Bissau Colonialism Régulos |
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This paper explores some aspects of the ambiguity of power relations during the colonial period that still influence the postcolonial construction of the nation. The colonial encounter led to the confrontation of local political institutions with the colonial project of cultural and political hegemony. Local intermediaries were particularly sensitive to this mutual game of domination, integration and exclusion. Focusing on the iconographic representations of a category of such intermediaries, the régulos or local chiefs in Guinea-Bissau – both from the local point of view and from the colonialist one – we have access to a mirror of the empire: the perverse and continual negotiation of identities and references between colonizers and colonized. |
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