Copyright

Anita Frison

Published On

2026-02-19

Page Range

pp. 65–112

Language

  • English

Print Length

48 pages

2. Lands. Towards a Virtual Appropriation of the Continent

  • Anita Frison (author)
Chapter of: Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850-1917)(pp. 65–112)
The focus here is on how Sub-Saharan Africa was depicted in maps, travel literature, and photographs during the late imperial period. The chapter reveals how Russians engaged in a symbolic appropriation of African lands through acts such as renaming places with Russian toponyms and selectively describing landscapes that excluded the presence of black people.

Contributors

Anita Frison

(author)
PI of a Stars@Unipd at University of Padua

Anita Frison holds a PhD in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Studies from the University of Padua. She has since taught Russian Literature at the universities of Urbino, Macerata, Venice and Padua, publishing several scientific articles and edited volumes She is currently the PI of a Stars@Unipd grant (https://www.unipd.it/en/stars), with a project entitled 'AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)'. Her research interests include Russian literature and culture (19th-early 20th century), Russo-African relations, the Russian Empire and its entanglements, Semiotic, Postcolonial Theory, and Cultural studies. Since 2020 she is the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal eSamizdat (www.esamizdat.it).