'Free men we stand under the flag of our land': a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.
Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancipation is the national anthem of colonised states....
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 556 - 573 |
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