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Catttt Posted 9 years ago
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The history of colonialism and conquest

Does the highlighted sentence mean "They critically and by means of these collections and materials that play the role of some kind of evidence, address the history of colonialism and the conquest of other countries by colonialists"?


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Like Bouabré, other contemporary African and African-diaspora artists fashion their art around material culture that they have carefully collected and assembled. They critically address the history of colonialism and conquest through these collections and materials as a type of evidence.

  

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red apple Does the highlighted sentence mean "They critically and by means of these collections and materials that play the role of some kind of evidence, address the history of colonialism and the conquest of other countries by colonialists"? It seems to, yes. " part has no proper connection to what has gone before.

  • red apple Does the highlighted sentence mean "They critically and by means of these collections and materials that play the role of some kind of evidence, address the history of colonialism and the conquest of other countries by colonialists"?
  • It seems to, yes.
  • " part has no proper connection to what has gone before.
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red appleDoes the highlighted sentence mean "They critically and by means of these collections and materials that play the role of some kind of evidence, address the history of colonialism and the conquest of other countries by colonialists"?

It seems to, yes. However, in my opinion the sentence is not well written, and the "as ..." part has no proper conne

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