Rethinking African cultural production /edited by Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: rethinking African cultural productions / The critical present: where is "African literature"? / African writers challenge conventions of postcolonial literary history / Provocations: African societies and theories of creativity / In praise of the alphabet / African cultural studies: of travels, accents, and epistemologies / Le freak, c'est critical and chic: North African scholars and the conditions of cultural production in post-9/11 U.S. academia / Reading "beur" film production otherwise: the poetics of the human and the transcultural / Revealing the past, conceptualizing the future on-screen: the social, political, and economic challenges of contemporary filmmaking in Morocco / Thresholds of new African dramaturgies in France today / Island geography as creole biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian literary production / Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow -- Eileen Julien -- Olabode Ibironke -- Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Patrice Nganang -- Tejumola Olaniyan -- Lamia Benyoussef -- Safoi Babana-Hampton -- Valerie K. Orlando -- Maria Minich Brewer -- Magali Compan.



9780253016034


African literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--Africa


Electronic Books.

PL8010 / .R484 2015