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Author: Dunaevskiĭ, Isaak Osipovich,,1900-1955

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The African presence : representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness /

Uses interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material to consider the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity through the ways references to Africa have become part of discussions within British political cu...

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Main Authors: Harrison, Graham, 1968
Published: Manchester University Press ; distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Manchester ; New York : New York :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
National characteristics, British
British
Antislavery movements
Anti-apartheid movements
Debt relief > Africa
Great Britain > Civilization > African influences > Case studies
Summary: Uses interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material to consider the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity through the ways references to Africa have become part of discussions within British political culture about the place of Britain in the world.
Carrier Form: x, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
ISBN: 9780719088858 (hardback) :
0719088852 (hardback)
Index Number: DA47
CLC: K561.03
Call Number: K561.03/H319
Contents: Representing Africa -- Putting images into (e)motion : representing Africa through suffering -- Africa-Britain : a short history -- Africa campaigning in the framing : from abolition to Make poverty history -- Africa and the search for Britishness -- Britishness and the search for Africa -- Representing Africa through the commodity -- The Year of Africa -- Conclusion.

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