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Postcolonial automobility : car culture in West Africa / Lindsey B. Green-Simms.
Lippincott Library HE5706.5.A6 G74 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobiles--Social aspects--Africa, West.
- Automobiles.
- Automobiles--Africa, West--History.
- Automobiles in literature.
- Automobiles in motion pictures.
- Automobile driving--Social aspects--Africa, West.
- Automobile driving.
- Automobile driving--Social aspects.
- Automobiles--Social aspects.
- History.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Through new and provocative readings of famous plays, novels, and films, as well as recent popular videos, Postcolonial Automobility reveals the surprising ways in which automobility in the region is at once an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life. Providing a unique perspective on technology in Africa-one refusing to be confined to narratives of either underdevelopment or inevitable progress-and covering a broad range of interdisciplinary material, Postcolonial Automobility will appeal to scholars and students of African literature and cinema, as well as those in postcolonial and globalization studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thinking automobility, feeling automobility
- The hum of progress: motorcars and the modernization of West Africa
- "No danger no delay": Wole Soyinka and the perils of driving
- Moving pictures, mired cars: The automobile in African francophone
- The return of the Mercedes: Upward mobility, the good life, and Nigerian video film
- Women in traffic: towards a feminist automobility
- Conclusion: Global (be)longings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978- Postcolonial automobility.
- ISBN:
- 9781517901134
- 1517901138
- 9781517901141
- 1517901146
- OCLC:
- 959373179
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