The African presence : representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness / Graham Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Graham, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, British.

Antislavery movements.

Anti-apartheid movements.

Debt relief--Africa.

Debt relief.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : charts; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Uses interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material to consider the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity through the ways references to Africa have become part of discussions within British political culture about the place of Britain in the world.

Contents:

Representing Africa

Putting images into (e)motion : representing Africa through suffering

Africa-Britain : a short history

Africa campaigning in the framing : from abolition to Make Poverty History

Africa and the search for Britishness

Britishness and the search for Africa

Representing Africa through the commodity

The Year of Africa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526102690

1526102692

9781526102683

1526102684

9781781705773

1781705771

OCLC:

1132688410