Humanitarian Fictions Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination [#683955]

Free Download Megan Cole Paustian, "Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1531505481 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn't tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa.
Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism centers on a relationship of assistance, focusing less on rights than on needs, less on legal frameworks than moral ones, less on the problem than on the nonstate solution. Tracing the white savior narrative back to religious missionaries of the nineteenth century, Humanitarian Fiction
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