03157nam 2200673Ia 450 991082078230332120240513232840.01-283-23592-797866132359230-253-00550-7(CKB)2670000000130883(EBL)670305(OCoLC)768081345(MiAaPQ)EBC670305(MdBmJHUP)muse17188(Au-PeEL)EBL670305(CaPaEBR)ebr10574931(CaONFJC)MIL323592(EXLCZ)99267000000013088320110404d2011 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostcolonial artists and global aesthetics /Akin Adesokan1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (254 p.)African expressive culturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-22345-8 0-253-35679-2 Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.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.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.African expressive cultures.Motion picturesSocial aspectsAfricaMotion pictures and globalizationIntercultural communication in motion picturesLiterature and globalizationAfrican diaspora in literatureLiterature and societyAfricaIn motion picturesMotion picturesSocial aspectsMotion pictures and globalization.Intercultural communication in motion pictures.Literature and globalization.African diaspora in literature.Literature and society.302.23/43096Adesokan Akinwumi1653611MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820782303321Postcolonial artists and global aesthetics4004991UNINA