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Informationen zum Autor Akin Adesokan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington and author of the novel Roots in the Sky. His writings have appeared in Screen, Textual Practice, Chimurenga, and Research in African Literatures. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Discusses the literary and artistic effects of globalisation Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital 1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily 2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism 3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation 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
