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The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering /
"In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Human rights in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The Emergences of Biafra. The end of empire and the coming of postcolonial conflict ; The Biafran campaign for self-determination in a postcolonial world of states ; The transnational internationalization of the Biafran campaign
- Part 2. Biafra on a Global Stage. Creating "Biafra": the discovery of civil war as a humanitarian crisis ; "Biafran babies": humanitarian visions of postcolonial disaster ; Auschwitz in Africa? Biafra, Holocaust memory, and the language of rights ; Distant suffering and close concerns: Biafra and the Third World in the global sixties
- Part 3. The Ends and Afterlives of Biafra. Biafra, the internationalism of states, and the question of genocide ; The end of Biafra, the end of the lobby ; The afterlives of Biafra.