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Book SynopsisExplores the cultural and religious significance of a series artworks painted onto the walls of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān by women artists in the late nineteenth century.
Trade Review“Gallois’s magnifying-glass-close archaeology of late nineteenth-century photographs, postcards, and related ephemera provides an ideologically engaging model for rethinking visual cultures of colonized people. Details accidentally captured in hegemonic images reveal push-back tactics and truths too long ignored. Unobtrusive graffiti on the walls of the Great Mosque and other buildings of Qayrawān (Kairouan), Tunisia, was talismanic expression by local women seeking to protect their communities from the ignominious physical and epistemic violence of racialized French pretense. Brilliant.”
—Allen Roberts,Coeditor of Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence
