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Images of Africa : creation, negotiation and subversion / edited by Julia Gallagher; with a foreword by V.Y. Mudimbe.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gallagher, Julia (Lecturer in international relations), editor.
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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