Seeing through Cloth: Looms and Power in French Colonial West Africa
October 27, 2020
My current book project is focused on textiles and weaving in the French colony of Soudan Français (today Mali) during the interwar period of the 1920s and 30s. On the face of it, this topic seems a world away from the pandemics of disease and racism we face today. Yet, I find resonances of the contemporary moment in this art historical study of cloth and colonial power…