Title: Postcolonial artists and global aesthetics /
Authors: Adesokan, Akinwumi
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Motion pictures Social aspects Africa.; Motion pictures and globalization.; Intercultural communication in motion pictures.; Literature and globalization.; African diaspora in literature.; Literature and society.; Africa In motion pictures.
Contents: 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.