Imagining Disaster in the African Postcolony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6091863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Huggan (0000-0002-3375-1033, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 313-329 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Matatu (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0932-9714 • E-ISSN: 1875-7421 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789042028166_021 |
| OpenAlex | W961399385 |
| ISBN | 9789042028166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay discusses the theoretical implications and consequences of the topical use of ‘disaster’ in public discourse on, and in literary and cinematic representations of, Africa. The author introduces the “genre of contemporary disaster writing” as a site where ‘disaster’ is often treated as a ‘natural’ condition of modernity. The images and motifs that are mediated by such disaster writings, it is further argued, easily become the object of touristic curiosity
Aesthetics · Art · Curiosity · Geography · Linguistics · Media studies · Modernity · Natural disaster · Political science · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |