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Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama

机译:后期电视?当代电视剧中的文化公民权与非洲的调解

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Despite well-established critiques from African and Africanist scholars, problematic images and narratives of Africa as a site of disease, famine, and conflict continue to circulate formulaically in mainstream first-world media. Meanwhile, many recent complex humanitarian emergencies in African countries have failed to garner significant attention from mainstream Western media and their audiences. This article examines how these power-bearing patterns of representation and omission can be complicated, contested, and disrupted in contemporary TV drama that takes recent African crises as its subject matter. We focus on six episodes of the hospital drama ER set in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur region of Sudan. Our analysis of the textual strategies deployed in these episodes and of online audience engagements with them enables us to explore what happens when Africa is brought into the regimes of narrative complexity increasingly associated with television drama in the new media ecology. ER's engagements with African conflict innovatively articulate key aspects of the cultural politics of postdevelopment and postcolonialism in ways that challenge familiar Western media tropes of the "troubled continent" and destabilize the wider knowledges that sustain them.
机译:尽管非洲和非洲主义学者对批评进行了充分的批评,但非洲作为疾病,饥荒和冲突发生地的图像和叙述存在问题,但在第一世界主流媒体中仍继续按惯例流传。同时,非洲国家最近发生的许多复杂的人道主义紧急情况都未能引起西方主流媒体及其受众的关注。本文探讨了在以非洲最近的危机为主题的当代电视剧中,如何将这些承载权力的表现形式和遗漏形式进行复杂化,有争议性和破坏性。我们将重点放在刚果民主共和国和苏丹达尔富尔地区的六集情节戏剧ER中。我们对这些情节中部署的文字策略以及与之互动的在线观众的分析,使我们能够探索将非洲纳入叙事复杂度体系时会发生什么,叙事复杂度与新媒体生态中的电视剧越来越相关。 ER与非洲冲突的接触以创新的方式阐明了后发展和后殖民主义文化政治的关键方面,从而挑战了“动荡大陆”熟悉的西方媒体风格,并破坏了维持它们的更广泛知识。

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