Voices of the Poor in Africa Answers Scattered Pictures is an anthology

Scattered Pictures is an anthology of essays that discuss difficult and oftentimes controversial topics

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Voices of the Poor in Africa Answers Scattered Pictures is an anthologyElizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them