Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War

by George Macleod

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496230639
• ISBN13: 9781496230638
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"