26 - Afrique(s), entre histoire et mémoire(s)
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Patrick Minder
‘The Dark Continent’: Images and Imagination in the Swiss Press (1870-1945)
Le Temps des médias n° 26, Printemps 2016, p. 40-56.
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Relations between Africans and Swiss are influenced by a spirit marked by coloniality, conditioned by the discourse of the Swiss media. This system operating in a vacuum reproduces images, stereotypes and representations. The exhibition of Africans in Switzerland confirms the belief in a hierarchy of races. The peculiarity of Switzerland in relation to its neighbours lies in the abstract expression of colonial leanings while it possesses none.
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