{"product_id":"mediating-violence-from-africa-9781496230638","title":"Mediating Violence from Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMediating Violence from Africa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“George MacLeod’s outstanding study of mediation in Francophone African literature, film, and testimony offers an unfailing and generous commitment to foregrounding representations of lived African experiences. His book models a political and critical refusal of transparency and pathos, while simultaneously showing the complexity, often paradoxical, of how we access contemporary Africa(s).”—Lydie Moudileno, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French at the University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e“George MacLeod convincingly shows how iconic African figures of the post–Cold War—the child soldier, the survivor of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the Islamist terrorist, and the celebrity humanitarian—were first mediated in dominant Western political discourses before finding their way into Francophone cultural productions. \u003ci\u003eMediating Violence from Africa\u003c\/i\u003e charts new ways for reading violence in Francophone African cultural productions of the past thirty years.”—Koffi Anyinefa, professor and chair of French and Francophone studies at Haverford College\u003cbr\u003e“The pertinence of the iconic figures chosen to analyze how political violence in Africa is mediated combined with George MacLeod’s innovative transnational and post–Cold War timeframe make this book an important and timely contribution to the field of Francophone studies.”—Alexandre Dauge-Roth, author of \u003ci\u003eWriting and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMediating Violence from Africa\u003c\/i\u003e grants new insights for students and scholars of Africa today. It is a well-crafted critical study that is fascinating to read. George MacLeod is an excellent scholar and literary critic.”—Mildred Mortimer, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Sources and Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Iconic Figures and Post–Cold War Mediations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Using the Child Soldier\u003cbr\u003e 2. Filming Terrorists, Filming Timbuktu\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rwanda’s Tutsi Survivors\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Celebrity Humanitarian Ally\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Mediating Violence from Africa in the Post–Post–Cold War Period\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Data Visualization of Vénuste Kayimahe’s Marginalizations in Discussions of “Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Remember”\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409240105303,"sku":"9781496230638","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496230638.jpg?v=1730506101","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediating-violence-from-africa-9781496230638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}