Postcolonial artists and global aesthetics
By: Akin Adesokan
Series: African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780253356796; 9780253223456
Subjects: Motion pictures; In motion pictures; Literature and society; Intercultural communication in motion pictures; Literature and globalization; African diaspora in literature; Motion pictures and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: generic transformations at the crossroads of capital; title: C.L.R. James sees the world steadily; title: Fitful decolonization: Xala and the poetics of double fetishism; title: Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: aesthetics of exhortation; title: Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the challenges of aesthetic populism; title: Imaginary citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic world; title: Spirits of Bandung: a sarcastic subject writes to empire; title: Conclusion: being African in the world.