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Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 21.10.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253005502 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 252 |
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Preface<br>Acknowledgments</p>
<p>Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital<br>1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily<br>2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism<br>3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation<br>4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism<br>5. Imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic World<br>6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire<br>Conclusion: Being African in the World</p>
<p>Notes<br>List of References<br>Filmography<br>Index</p>
<p>Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital<br>1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily<br>2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism<br>3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation<br>4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism<br>5. Imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic World<br>6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire<br>Conclusion: Being African in the World</p>
<p>Notes<br>List of References<br>Filmography<br>Index</p>
<p>Globalization's literary and artistic effects</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In this provocative book, Adesokan (comparative literature, Indiana Univ., Bloomington) argues that genre is shaped by context. For mid-20th-century Africa and much of the world, that context was decolonization, and by the beginning of the 21st century, globalization. The author reveals how the negative aspects of colonialism helped form complex identity issues and the aesthetic restrictions imposed by globalization. He discusses the inherent tensions between decolonization and globalization, using the works of six prominent artists to frame his arguments. His chapters on African film are particularly illuminating: he addresses the dominant tensions between film as a politically engaged medium (using Ousmane Sembene's 1975 film adaptation of his novel Xala, 1974) and film as commercial medium that caters to audience desires (using Tunde Kelani's 2001 Nollywood film/video Thunderbolt). Between the two he situates Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 1996 film Aristotle's Plot, which suggests the interplay between film as art, political engagement, and the desires of the audience for entertainment largely shaped by non-African aesthetics. Going beyond continental Africa, Adesokan includes chapters on Trinidadian/black British writer C. L. R. James, novelist and scholar Caryl Phillips, and prominent Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. —Choice</p>
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