Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xix, 230 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. African expressive cultures

Uniform title

1. African expressive cultures.

Subject

1. Motion pictures and globalization
2. Intercultural communication in motion pictures
3. Literature and society
4. African diaspora in literature
5. Motion pictures > Social aspects > Africa
6. Literature and globalization
7. Africa > In motion pictures

Contents

1. Introduction: generic transformations at the crossroads of capital -- C.L.R. James sees the world steadily -- Fitful decolonization: Xala and the poetics of double fetishism -- Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: aesthetics of exhortation -- Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the challenges of aesthetic populism -- Imaginary citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic world -- Spirits of Bandung: a sarcastic subject writes to empire -- Conclusion: being African in the world.

Call number

1. MFL 11-8599

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Author

1. Adesokan, Akinwumi.

Title

1. Postcolonial artists and global aesthetics / Akin Adesokan.

Imprint

1. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Series

1. African expressive cultures
2. African expressive cultures.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

LCCN

1. 2011014035

ISBN

1. 9780253356796 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0253356792 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780253223456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0253223458 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. MFL 11-8599