Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Falola, Toyin; Ngom, Fallou

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135212896
• Artikelnr.: 42982579

Autorenporträt

Dr. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professsor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fallou Ngom is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the African Language Program at the African Studies Center at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom Part I: Significance of African
Popular Icons and Cultures 1. Whose Image of Whose Africa? Problems of
Representation in Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun. Lena L. Khor
2. Prophetess: Aline Sitoé Diatta as a Contested Icon in Contemporary
Senegal Robert M. Baum 3. Custom and Politics in Ghanaian Popular Culture
Beverly J. Stoeltje 4. Tribal Marks among the Oyo Yoruba of Southwestern
Nigeria in the 21st Century Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi and Sekinat
Kola-Aderoju 5. Echoes of African Praise Songs in the Poetry of Kamau
Brathwaite Michael Sharp Part II: Religion and African Creative
Imaginations 6. Devil Worship as a Moral Discourse about Youth in Kenya
David A. Samper 7. A Historical Analysis of Ojube-Oba Festival in Ijebu
Ode, Nigeria Abiodun Akeem Oladiti 8. Temne Agency in the Propagation and
Africanization of Islam in Colonial Freetown, 1920-1961 Joseph J. Bangura
9. The Antenna and the Mosque: Liberatory Mass Media in Moolaadé. Gerise
Herndon Part III: Gender and African Artistic Imaginations 10. Re-imagining
Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq's and Zainab Idris's Video-Film Albashi.
Carmen McCain 11. "What's an Old Man Like You Doing with a Saignante Like
Me?" Kenneth W. Harrow 12. An African Feminist Analysis of Popular Culture
Roberta K. Timothy 13. Other Monsters: Gender Complexities of
(Femi/woma/stiwa)nism in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather. Simone
Sessolo Part IV: African Cultures and Artistic Imaginations 14. Lu jot bët
bi? (Wolof: What's Wrong with the Eye [I]?) Ousmane Sembène and Djibril
Diop Mambéty: African Cinema Rhetoric and the Search for Authenticity
Debbie Olson 15. Dak'Art, Biennial of Contemporary African Art: Conjunction
of Styles and Concepts Hélène Tissières 16. Gloom and Grime to Crime: Fate
of Migrants as Depicted in Journey Motif by Two Nigerian Movies Kayode
Animasaun 17. The No.1 Popular Detective Series, the Invention of Botswana
and the Postcolonial Sublime. Derek Barker 18. Narration and Vernacular in
Mohamed Berrada's Lu'bat al-Nisyan. Johanna Sellman