Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Adelakun, Abimbola (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Falola, Toyin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: African Histories and Modernities
• Θέματα: 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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine's L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchou
• 3. Revolution and Revolt: Identitarian Space, Magic, and the Land in Decolonial Latin American and African Writing
• 4. Family Politics: Negotiating the Family Unit as a Creative Force in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen and Ben Okri's The Famished Road
• 5. Auteuring Nollywood: Rethinking the Movie Director and the Idea of Creativity in the Nigerian Film Industry
• 6. Nollywood in Rio: An Exploration of Brazilian Audience Perception of Nigerian Cinema
• 7. Re-Producing Self, Community, and "Naija" in Nigerian Diaspora Films: Soul Sisters in the United States and Man on the Ground in South Africa
• 8. A Single Story: African Women as Staged in US Theatre
• 9. Silêncio: Black Bodies, Black Characters, and the Black Political Persona in the Work of the Teatro Negro Group Cia dos Comuns
• 10. New Orleans: America's Creative Crescent
• 11. The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes in Nigeria's Social Media Election
• 12. Black Creativity in Jamaica and Its Global Influences: 1930-1987
• 13. Ethics and Aesthetic Creativity: A Critical Reflection on the Moral Purpose of African Art
• 14. From Saartjie to Queen Bey: Black Female Artists and the Global Cultural Industry.