POSTCOLONIAL ARTISTS AND GLOBAL AESTHETICS Written by Akin Adesokan Indiana University Press Series: African Expressive Cultures Publication date: 30 September 2011 Format: paper back, 252 pages, 8 lineart, 6x9 inches ISBN: 978-0-253-22345-6
Description: What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world. He tackles problems such as artistic representation in the era of decolonization, the uneven development of aesthetics across the world, and the impact of location and commodity culture on genres, with a distinctive approach that exposes the global processes transforming cultural forms. Review: "Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics thinks politics, art, aesthetics, modes of media production, and ideas about home, always dynamically, through the lens of expatriation. The book offers a necessary alternative to 'globalization' and lends 'postcoloniality' a shot in the critical and theoretical arm. It not only brings together various postcolonial locales (the Caribbean, the Asian subcontinent, Africa, the diaspora), but enacts how they should be thought together." -Grant Farred, Cornell University "This book is a significant intervention in debates on Postcolonialism and a model of intellectual ambition in its constant crossing of disciplinary and generic boundaries." -Jonathan Haynes, Long Island University Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital 1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily 2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism 3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation 4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism 5. Imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic World 6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire Conclusion: Being African in the World Notes List of References Filmography Index
