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Postcolonial automobility : car culture in West Africa
- Title
- Postcolonial automobility : car culture in West Africa / Lindsey B. Green-Simms.
- Author
- Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xi, 248 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Cars, cultural production, and global modernity -- The hum of progress: motorcars and the modernization of West Africa -- "No danger no delay": Wole Soyinka and the perils of driving -- Moving pictures, mired cars: The automobile in African francophone Cinema -- The return of the Mercedes: Upward mobility, the good life, and Nigerian video film -- Women in traffic: towards a feminist automobility -- Conclusion: Global (be)longings.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-407
- ISBN
- 9781517901134
- 1517901138
- 9781517901141
- 1517901146
- LCCN
- 2016043319
- OCLC
- 959373179
- Author
- Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978- author.
- Title
- Postcolonial automobility : car culture in West Africa / Lindsey B. Green-Simms.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-407