African Image

Author : Mel Bunce,Suzanne Franks,Chris Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317334286

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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century by Mel Bunce,Suzanne Franks,Chris Paterson Pdf

Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose perspectives are told and the forms of media that empower new voices. Case studies consider questions such as: how has new media changed whose views are represented? Does Chinese or diaspora media offer alternative perspectives for viewing the continent? How do foreign correspondents interact with their audiences in a social media age? What is the contemporary role of charity groups and PR firms in shaping news content? They also examine how recent high profile events and issues been covered by the international media, from the Ebola crisis, and Boko Haram to debates surrounding the "Africa Rising" narrative and neo-imperialism. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and ‘darkest Africa’ news coverage. It explores the news outlets, international power dynamics, and technologies that shape and reshape the contemporary image of Africa and Africans in journalism and global culture.

Author : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.

Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014207231

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The African Image. -- by Ezekiel Mphahlele Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Tina Campt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822350743

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Image Matters by Tina Campt Pdf

Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.

Author : Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620403549

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The African Lookbook by Catherine E. McKinley Pdf

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552382127

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New Directions in African Education by S. Nombuso Dlamini Pdf

A collection of essays which critically examines education in the African context and presents possible courses of action to reinvent its future.

Author : Clare Clarke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351350167

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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa by Clare Clarke Pdf

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe – a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher – looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa, but in which Africans appear only as onlookers or as indistinguishable "savages". Dismissing the prevailing portrayal of Joseph Conrad as a liberal hero whose anti-imperialist views insulated him from significant criticism, Achebe re-cast the Polish author as a "bloody racist" in an analysis so cogent it changed the way in which his discipline looked not only at Conrad, but also at all works with settings indicative of racial conflict. The creative contribution of Achebe’s essay lies in delving far beneath the surface of Conrad’s novel; he not only generated new and highly influential hypotheses about the author's modes of thought and motivations, but also redefined the entire debate over Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", and now falls into the class of “permanent literature”, Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely – or criticize its author.

Author : David Bindman,Suzanne Preston Blier,Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674504399

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The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art by David Bindman,Suzanne Preston Blier,Christraud M. Geary Pdf

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egyptâe"positioned properly as part of African historyâe"this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization. This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. A halfâe century later, Harvard University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Artâe"ten books in totalâe"beginning with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil familyâe(tm)s original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : UVA:X001932283

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The African Image by Es'kia Mphahlele Pdf

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African literature
ISBN : UOM:39015050246431

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African Images by African Literature Association. Meeting Pdf

Author : Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107016316

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Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh Pdf

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

Author : Anandi Ramamurthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429685590

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Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain by Anandi Ramamurthy Pdf

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres – art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera – represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-Twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945 as well as the reworkings of imperial and ‘racial’ ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance.

Author : Peter Rigby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183832

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African Images by Peter Rigby Pdf

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship.

Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243655401

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African Image by Ezekiel Mphahlele Pdf

Author : Doortmont
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406341

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The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison by Doortmont Pdf

The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.