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About this book
An "engaging" study of trash as a metaphor in contemporary African cinema ( African Studies Review ). Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have depicted the globalized world. Rather than focusing on topics such as national liberation and postcolonialism, he employs the disruptive notion of trash to propose a destabilizing aesthetics of African cinema. Harrow argues that the spread of commodity capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery.
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Publisher
Indiana University PressYear
2013Print ISBN
9780253007513eBook ISBN
9780253007575Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash
- 2. RanciĂšre: Aesthetics, Its MĂ©sententes and Discontents
- 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash
- 4. Globalizationâs Dumping Ground: The Case of Trafigura
- 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty
- 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, lâOiseau Rebelle
- 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacroâs âPuk Niniâ and La Nuit de la vĂ©ritĂ©
- 8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water
- 9. Abderrahmane Sissakoâs Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality
- 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O HerĂłi and Daratt
- 11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butlerâs Assujetissement
- 12. Trashâs Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index