Rethinking African Cultural Production

Informationen zum Autor Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Trash: African Cinema from Below (IUP, 2013). Klappentext Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Trash: African Cinema from Below (IUP, 2013). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rethinking African Cultural Production Frieda Ekotto and Ken Harrow 1. The Critical Present: Where Is "African Literature"? Eileen Julien 2. African Writers Challenge Conventions of Postcolonial Literary History Olabode Ibironke 3. Provocations: African Societies and Theories of Creativity Moradewun Adejunmobi 4. In Praise of the Alphabet Patrice Nganang 5. African Cultural Studies: Of Travels, Accents, and Epistemologies Tejumola Olaniyan 6. Le Freak, C'est Critical and Chic: North African Scholars and the Conditions of Cultural Production in Post 9/11 U.S. Academia Lamia Benyoussef 7. Reading 'Beur' Film Production Otherwise: The Poetics of the Human and the Transcultural Safoi Babana-Hampton 8. Revealing the Past, Conceptualizing the Future on Screen: The Social, Political and Economic Challenges of Contemporary Filmmaking in Morocco Valérie K. Orlando 9. Theorizing New African Dramaturgies in France Mária Minich Brewer 10. Island Geography as Creole Biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian Literary Production Magali Compan List of Contributors Index

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• Authors: Frieda Harrow Ekotto, Kenneth W. (EDT)/ Ekotto Harrow, Kenneth W. Ekotto Harrow
• Assisted by: Edited by Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W Ha (Editor), Frieda Ekotto (Editor), Kenneth Harrow (Editor), Kenneth W Harrow (Editor), Kenneth W. Harrow (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253015976
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01597-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Afrika, Kunst, allgemein, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, ART / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Pop Arts / Pop Culture