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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (IUP, 2007). Klappentext Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (IUP, 2007). Zusammenfassung Uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how African films have depicted the globalized world Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash 2. Rancière: Aesthetics, Its Mésententes and Discontents 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash 4. Globalization's Dumping Groun:, The Case of Trafigura 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La Nuit de la vérité 8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water 9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Herói and Daratt 11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement 12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
