Rethinking African cultural productions / edited by Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ekotto, Frieda, editor.

Harrow, Kenneth W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--21st century--History and criticism.

African literature.

Motion pictures--Africa--History.

Motion pictures.

Intellectual life.

Africa.

History.

Africa--Intellectual life--21st century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 204 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: rethinking African cultural productions / Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow

The critical present: where is "African literature"? / Eileen Julien

African writers challenge conventions of postcolonial literary history / Olabode Ibironke

Provocations: African societies and theories of creativity / Moradewun Adejunmobi

In praise of the alphabet / Patrice Nganang

African cultural studies: of travels, accents, and epistemologies / Tejumola Olaniyan

Le freak, c'est critical and chic: North African scholars and the conditions of cultural production in post-9/11 U.S. academia / Lamia Benyoussef

Reading "beur" film production otherwise: the poetics of the human and the transcultural / Safoi Babana-Hampton

Revealing the past, conceptualizing the future on-screen: the social, political, and economic challenges of contemporary filmmaking in Morocco / Valerie K. Orlando

Thresholds of new African dramaturgies in France today / Maria Minich Brewer

Island geography as creole biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian literary production / Magali Compan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253015976

0253015979

9780253016003

0253016002

OCLC:

881657017