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A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI

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Abstract

Bentrovato and Rath examine contemporary textbook representations of former colonies in WWI, particularly in Africa, against the backdrop of the continent’s pivotal yet largely unacknowledged involvement in this global war. This chapter contributes to a largely Eurocentric body of textbook research on WWI, and related scholarship on colonialism and images of Africa, by comparing and contrasting textual and visual data drawn from the largest and most varied sample of African and European textbooks used to date to qualitatively analyse depictions of WWI in educational media. The study dissects dominant textbook discourses across the two continents through the lenses of critical and postcolonial theory and ascertains the extent to which they echo a growing academic interest in the experiences and agency of formerly colonised peoples during this prominent historical conflict. In doing so, the chapter offers pivotal insights into the interplay of knowledge and power, and processes of empowerment and disempowerment, involved in cultural representations of the “self” and “the other” in post-colonial societies and in today’s increasingly globalised world.

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Bentrovato, D., Rath, I. (2018). A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI. In: Roldán Vera, E., Fuchs, E. (eds) Textbooks and War. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98803-0_7

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