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Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.05.2014

Abbildungen

4 b&w illus.

Herausgeber

Peter J. Bloom + weitere

Verlag

Indiana University Press

Seitenzahl

380

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/2,2 cm

Gewicht

677 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-253-01225-8

Beschreibung

Rezension

This is a varied collection of fifteen sole-authored chapters on modernization as spectacle, an area that has attracted little research to date . . . [A] good read.Feb. 2016

(Africa)

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.05.2014

Abbildungen

4 b&w illus.

Herausgeber

Verlag

Indiana University Press

Seitenzahl

380

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/2,2 cm

Gewicht

677 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-253-01225-8

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

  • Introduction: Modernization as Spectacle in Africa
    Stephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa Manuh

    Part I. Modernization and the Origins of the Package
    1. After Modernization: Globalization and the African Dilemma
    Percy C. Hintzen
    2. Modernization Theory and the Figure of Blindness: Filial Reflections
    Andrew Apter

    Part II. Media, Modernity, and Modernization
    3. Film as Instrument of Modernization and Social Change in Africa: The Long View
    Rosaleen Smyth
    4. Mass Education, Cooperation, and the "African Mind"
    Aaron Windel
    5. Is Propaganda Modernity? Press and Radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its Aftermath
    Mhoze Chikowero
    6. Elocution, Englishness, and Empire: Film and Radio in Late Colonial Ghana
    Peter J. Bloom

    Part III. Infrastructure and Effects
    7. Negotiating Modernization: The Kariba Dam Project in the Central African Federation, c. 1954-1960
    Julia Tischler
    8. "No One Should Be Worse Off": The Akosombo Dam, Modernization, and the Experience of Resettlement in Ghana
    Stephan F. Miescher
    9. Radioactive Excess: Modernization as Spectacle and Betrayal in Postcolonial Gabon
    Gabrielle Hecht

    Part IV. Institutional Training in Nkrumah's Ghana
    10. Modeling Modernity: The Brief Story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot Named Hanna, and the Wonders of Motorless Flight
    Jean Allman
    11. The African Personality Dances Highlife: Popular Music, Urban Youth, and Cultural Modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965
    Nate Plageman
    12. Building Institutions for the New Africa: The Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana
    Takyiwaa Manuh

    Part V. Modernization and the Literary Imagination
    13. Theatre and the Politics of Display: The Tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's First World Festival of Negro Arts
    Christina S. McMahon
    14. Re-Engaging Narratives of Modernization in Contemporary African Literature
    Nana Wilson-Tagoe
    15. Between Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ng¿g¿ wa Thiong'o's Theater and the Art and Politics of Modernizing African Culture
    Aida Mbowa

    Contributors
    Index