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标题：Postcards from the edge of empire: images and messages from French Indochina
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作者：Janet Hoskins
期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2007
期号：44
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：Colonial postcards are of ten pub-lished and critiqued for their racist and propagandistic content, but the eth-nographic value of the postcard has been neglected, as has the content of the mes-sages printed on th e other side. Inclu d-ing messages in the analysis amplifies and complicat es th e visual tendency to stereotype, exoticise and, at times, demonise. There is sometimes a syn-ergistic consonance between image and message, at other times an unconscious, ironic or metaphoric dissonance