Diplomatic gifts as expression of the colonial trauma. Stories of African wooden and ivory sculptures
This article offers an analysis of a series of diplomatic gifts of African origin, part of the “Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu Collection” of the ASTRA National Museum Complex in Sibiu, Romania, from the perspective of their capacity of evoking the trauma of the colonial oppression, in an international...
| Published in: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Main Author: | Horia Iova |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bucharest University Press
2022-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Iova.pdf |
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