Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa

By John Sorenson

Book Overview

In Imagining Ethiopia, Sorenson examines Western mass media images of Ethiopia, placing them in the context of a larger discourse on the Third World. Sorenson shows how our image of Ethiopia has been developed by reporters and photographers who blamed the famine on African backwardness and ignored its historical and political causes, which include a colonial history, militarization, and the circumstances of Africa's integration into the world market.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351973X
• ISBN13: 9780813519739
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"