Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War MacLeod George
Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War MacLeod George Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors,…
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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War MacLeod George
Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post-Cold War Francophone Africa. MacLeod analyzes the ways Francophone African authors and filmmakers, as well as their editors and scholarly critics, negotiate the aesthetic, political, cultural, and ethical implications of making these This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras, included the use of child soldiers facilitated by the Soviet Union's castoff Kalashnikov rifles, the rise of Islamist terrorism in West Africa, and the horrific genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda.Through close readings of fictionalized child-soldier narratives, cinematic representations of Islamist militants, genocide survivor testimony, and Western scholarship, George S.
Africa And The Second World War
Cinema and the Cultural Cold War