Otherness and the Media

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Otherness and the Media
Author : Hamid Naficy
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Publisher : Routledge
Language : English
Release Date : 04 October 2016
ISBN : 9781315515168
Pages : 306 pages
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Otherness and the Media by Hamid Naficy Book PDF Summary

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ‘difference’, ‘diversity’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘representation’ and ‘postcolonial’ discourses. Such issues and discourses question existing canons of criticism, theory and cultural practice but also because they suggest a new sense of direction in theorisation of difference and representation.

Otherness and the Media

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ‘difference’, ‘diversity’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘representation’ and ‘postcolonial’ discourses. Such issues and discourses question existing canons of criticism, theory and cultural practice but also because they suggest a new sense of

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