Images of Africa : creation, negotiation and subversion /
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Manchester International Relations
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theorising image: a relational approach
- Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood
- International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives?
- 'Image management' in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors
- Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image
- Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda
- The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas
- Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art
- Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film.