De Groof, M: Lumumba in the Arts

Matthias De Groof is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland and is affiliated with the University of Antwerp.

Introduction by Matthias De Groof ¿ The Iconography of Patrice Emery Lumumba
PART 1 ¿ LUMUMBA IN HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM BÊTE NOIRE TO BEATIFICATION
Isabelle de Rezende ¿ History as Spectacle
Jean Omasombo Tshonda ¿ Lumumba, a Never-ending Tragedy and the Unfulfilled Mourning Process of Colonisation
Pedro Monaville ¿ A History of Glory and Dignity: Patrice Lumumba in Historical Imagination and Postcolonial Genealogies
Christopher L. Miller ¿ Patrice Lumumba and the Past Conditional: The Virtual Reality of a Martyr
Elikia M¿Bokolo, interviewed by Julien Truddaïu & Matthias De Groof ¿ The History of Patrice Lumumbäs Historiography
GALLERY SECTION
PART 2 ¿ ICONOGRAPHY OF LUMUMBA
Cinema
Matthias De Groof ¿ Lumumba in Cinema
Raoul Peck ¿ It¿s About the Image
Karen Bouwer ¿ Lumumba entre deux genres: Peck¿s Filmic Diptych
Rosario Giordano ¿ The Masks of the Savage: Lumumba and the Independence of the Congo
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, interviewed by Matthias De Groof ¿ Imagining Lumumba
Theatre
Piet Defraeye ¿ Lumumba on Stage: X Times a Murder
Photography
Mark Sealy ¿ Picturing Lumumba: Framed in Colonial Time
Poetry
Mathieu Zana Etambala ¿ Tributes to Patrice Lumumba in the Poetry of the American Continent, 1961-1966
Comics
Véronique Bragard ¿ Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Figure of Lumumba as Decolonial Counterpoint in Nicolas Pitz¿s Comics Les Jardins du Congo (2013)
Music
Léon Tsambu ¿ The Figurative Representation of Lumumba in Popular Music
Gert Huskens and Idesbald Goddeeris ¿ Lumumba in the Hood: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba in Rap Music since 1990
Painting
Bogumil Jewsiewicki ¿ A Congolese Hero to the Oppressed Peoples of the World: Lumumba, from Christlike Martyr to Guide for the Future
Tshibumba Kanda Matulu and Johannes Fabian ¿ Conversations
Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, interviewed by Matthias De Groof ¿ My Pauline and Your Patrice
Public space
Pierre Petit ¿ Official Miniatures: The Figure of Patrice Lumumba in the Global and the National Contexts
Julien Truddaïu ¿ Representing Lumumba (1956-1961): The Twists and Turns of Belgian Colonial Propaganda
Robbert Jacobs ¿ Down Lumumba Lane
Piet Defraeye ¿ Lumumbäs Bike: A Rhizomatic Walk in the Park
Epilogue by Matthias De Groof ¿ Shilatembo
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Colophon