Biafra in the pages of the revista Veja (1968-1970): between images, speeches and representations
The present article proposes to discuss a set of news about the Biafra War (1967-1970) on the pages of Veja magazine. Our goal is to examine the political and rhetorical meanings of the periodical about one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century occurred insouthwest of Nigeria. The conf...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Campo: Revista de Ciências Sociais |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/13959 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/cadernos/article/view/13959 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | história Biafra Nigéria Revista Veja imprensa history Veja magazine press |
| Sumario: | The present article proposes to discuss a set of news about the Biafra War (1967-1970) on the pages of Veja magazine. Our goal is to examine the political and rhetorical meanings of the periodical about one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century occurred insouthwest of Nigeria. The conflict has emancipated, by the Igbo people, the Republic of Biafra, whose ephemeral existence drenched the international images community that registered the misery and the ailments caused by the war. In Brazil, Biafra was present in weekly magazines and daily newspapers, from the modernization process of the press, who acted to inform national and international events through the publication of immediate news and in the formulation and intermediation of projects public and governmental interests. For that text, as documentary sources, the authors used the numbers published by Veja magazine between 1968 and 1970, context of war events. The collection of this journal is available free of charge on the magazine’s website (www.veja.abril.com.br/acervo).The images and narratives published in the journal point to a context of hunger, violence and humanitarian debates. |
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