Mediating violence from Africa : francophone literature, film, and testimony after the Cold War / George S. MacLeod.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781496237255
- 1496237250
- 9781496237262
- 1496237269
- Violence in motion pictures
- Violence in literature
- Motion pictures, African -- History and criticism
- African literature (French) -- History and criticism
- Africa -- In mass media
- Violence au cin�ema
- Violence dans la litt�erature
- Litt�erature africaine (fran�caise) -- Histoire et critique
- Afrique -- Dans les m�edias
- HISTORY / Africa / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- Violence in motion pictures
- Violence in literature
- Motion pictures, African
- Mass media
- African literature (French)
- Africa
- 840.996
- PQ3980.5
- SOC052000 | HIS001000
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Introduction: Iconic Figures and Post-Cold War Mediations -- 1. Using the Child Soldier -- 2. Filming Terrorists, Filming Timbuktu -- 3. Rwanda's Tutsi Survivors -- 4. The Celebrity Humanitarian Ally -- Conclusion: Mediating Violence from Africa in the Post-Post-Cold War Period -- Appendix: Data Visualization of V�enuste Kayimahe's Marginalizations in Discussions of "Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Remember".
""Mediating Violence from Africa" examines how both African and non-African French-speaking authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post-Cold War Francophone Africa"-- Provided by publisher.
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