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Rethinking African cultural productions by Kenneth W. Harrow; Frieda Ekotto; Eileen M. Julien; Olabode Ibironke; Moradewun Adejunmobi; Tejumola Olaniyan; Lamia Benyoussef; Safoi Babana-Hampton; Valérie K. Orlando; Mária Minich Brewer; Magali Compan is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rethinking African cultural productions about?

<P>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.</P>

Author

Kenneth W. Harrow; Frieda Ekotto; Eileen M. Julien; Olabode Ibironke; Moradewun Adejunmobi; Tejumola Olaniyan; Lamia Benyoussef; Safoi Babana-Hampton; Valérie K. Orlando; Mária Minich Brewer; Magali Compan

Publisher

Bloomington ; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253015976

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Performing Arts