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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820782303321

Autore

Adesokan Akinwumi

Titolo

Postcolonial artists and global aesthetics / / Akin Adesokan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23592-7

9786613235923

0-253-00550-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

African expressive cultures

Disciplina

302.23/43096

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.