Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion /: Creation, negotiation and subversion. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julia Gallagher, V. Y. Mudimbe.
• Editors: Gallagher, Julia
• Other Names: Mudimbe, V. Y writer of supplementary textual content.
• Contents: Foreword, V. Y. Mudimbe; 1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher; 2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola; 3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives?; Mel Bunce; 4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher; 5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta; 6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine; 7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann; 8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes; 9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani; 10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy Attree; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780719098086; 0719098084
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.