Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics

✍ Scribed by Adesokan, Akinwumi

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Series: African expressive cultures
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital
1. C.L.R. James Sees the World Steadily
2. Fitful Decolonization
3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood
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.

✦ Subjects

Social sciences. Fine Arts. Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa. Motion pictures and globalization. Intercultural communication in motion pictures. Literature and globalization. African diaspora in literature. Literature and society. Africa -- In motion pictures. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. PER