Research Catalog

Title

Art, creativity, and politics in Africa and the diaspora / Abimbola Adelakun, Toyin Falola, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni
• Falola, Toyin

Description

xiv, 335 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music, and visual art. Contributors place the concerns of black artists and their works within national and transnational conversations on anti-black racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, migration, resettlement, resistance, and transnational feminisms. Does art by the subaltern fulfill the liberatory potential that critics have ascribed to it? What other possibilities does political art offer? Together, these essays sort through the aesthetics of daily life to build a thesis that reflects the desire of black artists and cultures to remake themselves and their world.

Series Statement

African histories and modernities

Uniform Title

African histories and modernities.

Subjects

• Artists, Black
• Creative ability > Political aspects
• Art and race
• Artists, Black > Africa
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Africa
• Art, Black > Political aspects > Africa
• Arts > Political aspects > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Toyin Falola -- 2. Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine's L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc / Adam Aziz -- 3. Revolution and Revolt: Identitarian Space, Magic, and the Land in Decolonial Latin American and African Writing / Juan Manuel Avila Conejo -- 4. Family Politics: Negotiating the Family Unit as a Creative Force in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen and Ben Okri's The Famished Road / Aaron Brown -- 5. Auteuring Nollywood: Rethinking the Movie Director and the Idea of Creativity in the Nigerian Film Industry / Adeshina Afolayan -- 6. Nollywood in Rio: An Exploration of Brazilian Audience Perception of Nigerian Cinema / Kamahra Ewing -- 7. Re-producing Self, Community, and Ǹaija' in Nigerian Diaspora Films: Soul Sisters in the United States and Man on the Ground in South Africa / Olaocha Nwadiuto Nwabara -- 8. "A Single Story": African Women as Staged in US Theater / Lisa B. Thompson -- 9. Silencio: Black Bodies, Black Characters, and the Black Political Persona in the Work of the Teatro Negro Group Cia dos Comuns / Gustavo Melo Cerqueira -- 10. New Orleans: America's Creative Crescent / Lucy Bartholomee -- 11. The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes and Nigeria's Social Media Election / James Yeku -- 12. Black Creativity in Jamaica and Its Global Influences, 1930 -- 1987 / Bernard Steiner Ifekwe -- 13. Ethics and Aesthetic Creativity: A Critical Reflection on the Moral Purpose of African Art / Modestus Nnamdi Onyeaghalaji -- 14. From Saartjie to Queen Bey: Black Female Artists and the Global Cultural Industry / Olivier J. Tchouaffe.

Call Number

Sc D 19-659

ISBN

• 9783319913094
• 3319913093

LCCN

2018942664

OCLC

1030910207

Title

Art, creativity, and politics in Africa and the diaspora / Abimbola Adelakun, Toyin Falola, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African histories and modernities

African histories and modernities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.

Added Author

Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni, editor.

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 19-659