Rethinking African Cultural Production by Kenneth W. Harrow (English) Paperback

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While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.

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Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.

Author Biography

Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Trash: African Cinema from Below (IUP, 2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking African Cultural Production Frieda Ekotto and Ken Harrow1. The Critical Present: Where Is "African Literature"? Eileen Julien 2. African Writers Challenge Conventions of Postcolonial Literary History Olabode Ibironke3. Provocations: African Societies and Theories of Creativity Moradewun Adejunmobi 4. In Praise of the Alphabet Patrice Nganang5. African Cultural Studies: Of Travels, Accents, and Epistemologies Tejumola Olaniyan 6. Le Freak, C'est Critical and Chic: North African Scholars and the Conditions of Cultural Production in Post 9/11 U.S. Academia Lamia Benyoussef7. Reading 'Beur' Film Production Otherwise: The Poetics of the Human and the Transcultural Safoi Babana-Hampton 8. Revealing the Past, Conceptualizing the Future on Screen: The Social, Political and Economic Challenges of Contemporary Filmmaking in Morocco Valérie K. Orlando 9. Theorizing New African Dramaturgies in France Mária Minich Brewer 10. Island Geography as Creole Biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian Literary Production Magali CompanList of ContributorsIndex

Review

6/1/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Rethinking African Cultural Production is a thoughtful collection that scholars and students interested in cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, and Afropolitanism willnd illuminating. -- Bhekizizwe Peterson * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Rethinking African Cultural Production offers a useful compendium of essays that traces trajectories of debate, identifies a wealth of understudied and emerging areas of scholarship, and exemplifies the diversity of African cultural production as much as scholarship on it. It will be helpful to anyone concerned to reflect on the positionalities and assumptions that structure past and present academic conversations and institutions. * Media Industries *Rethinking African Cultural Production is a thoughtful collection that scholars and students interested in cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, and Afropolitanism will find illuminating. -- Bhekizizwe Peterson * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *

Long Description

Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.

Review Quote

"Rethinking African Cultural Production offers a useful compendium of essays that traces trajectories of debate, identifies a wealth of understudied and emerging areas of scholarship, and exemplifies the diversity of African cultural production as much as scholarship on it. It will be helpful to anyone concerned to reflect on the positionalities and assumptions that structure past and present academic conversations and institutions."

Competing Titles

African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History by Carmela Garritano (Ohio University Press, 2013). ISBN 9780896802865.

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Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view ofcreative production.

Details ISBN0253016002 Short Title RETHINKING AFRICAN CULTURAL PR Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 0253016002 ISBN-13 9780253016003 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 700.96 Year 2015 Imprint Indiana University Press Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Edited by Kenneth W. Harrow Illustrations black & white illustrations Author Mária Minich Brewer Publication Date 2015-05-29 UK Release Date 2015-05-29 AU Release Date 2015-05-29 NZ Release Date 2015-05-29 US Release Date 2015-05-29 Birth 1936 Affiliation Russian Academy Of Sci, Russia Position Graduate Student Qualifications Ph.D. Pages 212 Alternative 9780253015976 Audience General We've got this

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