Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adelakun, Abimbola (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Falola, Toyin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; World history.; Ethnology-Africa.; Africa-Politics and government.; African literature.; African History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; African Culture.; African Politics.; African Literature.

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,...