Nation As Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning - Couverture rigide

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Adebanwi, Wale

 
9781580465557: Nation As Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning
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ISBN 10 : 1580465552 ISBN 13 : 9781580465557
Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2016

Synopsis

Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of nationhood. Using the typical postcolonial state of Nigeria as a template and engaging with theoretical perspectives ranging from media studies, political science, and social theory to historical sociology and hermeneutics, Wale Adebanwi examines how the nation as grand narrative provides a critical interpretive lens through which competition among ethnic, ethnoregional, and ethnoreligious groups can be analyzed. Adebanwi illustrates how meaning is connected to power through ideology in the struggles enacted on the pages of the print media, on diverse issues including federalism, democracy and democratization, religion, majority-minority ethnic relations, space and territoriality, self-determination, and threat of secession. Nation as Grand Narrative will trigger further critical reflections on the articulation of relations of domination in the context of postcolonial grand narratives. Wale Adebanwi is associate professor of African American and African studies, University of California-Davis, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).

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Éditeur
University of Rochester Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1580465552
ISBN 13 
9781580465557
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
406
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