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Images of Africa : creation, negotiation and subversion / edited by Julia Gallagher; with a foreword by V.Y. Mudimbe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester International Relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary photography--Africa.
- Documentary photography.
- Photojournalism--Political aspects--Africa.
- Photojournalism.
- Africa.
- Africa--Civilization.
- Africa--Foreign public opinion.
- Africa--In mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 7 The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas8 Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; 9 Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art; 10 Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9780719098086
- 0719098084
- 9781781708491
- 1781708495
- 9780719098093
- 0719098092
- OCLC:
- 980805554
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