Akinwumi Adesokan

Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world. He tackles problems such as artistic representation in the era of decolonization, the uneven development of aesthetics across the world, and the impact of location and commodity culture on genres, with a distinctive approach that exposes the global processes transforming cultural forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253005502
• Artikelnr.: 38201260

Autorenporträt

Akinwumi Adesokan

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital
1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily
2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism
3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation
4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism
5. Imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic World
6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire
Conclusion: Being African in the World
Notes
List of References
Filmography
Index