Lindsey B. Green-Simms Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa 9781517901134

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Автор: Lindsey B. Green-Simms
Название: Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
ISBN: 9781517901134
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литература: история и критика

Исследование развития

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

Экономика развития и развивающиеся экономики

ISBN-10: 1517901138
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 24.10.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 41
Размер: 216 x 140 x 38
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism,Development studies,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography,Development economics & emerging economies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / African,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural,SOCIAL SCIENCE /
Подзаголовок: Car culture in west africa
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Through new and provocative readings of famous plays, novels, and films, as well as recent popular videos, Postcolonial Automobility reveals the surprising ways in which automobility in the region is, at once, an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life. Lindsey B. Green-Simms begins with the history of motorization in West Africa from the colonial era to the decolonizing decades after World War II, and addresses the tragedy of car accidents through a close reading of Wole Soyinka’s 1965 postindependence play The Road. Shifting to screen media, she discusses Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quartier Mozart and reviews popular, low-budget Nollywood films. Finally, Green-Simms considers how feminist texts rewrite and work in dialogue with the male-centered films and novels where the car stands in for patriarchal power and capitalist achievement.Providing a unique perspective on technology in Africa-one refusing to be confined to narratives of either underdevelopment or inevitable progress-and covering a broad range of interdisciplinary material, Postcolonial Automobility will appeal not only to scholars and students of African literature and cinema but also to those in postcolonial and globalization studies.
Дополнительное описание: Literature: history and criticism|Development studies|Social and cultural anthropology|Development economics and emerging economies

Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa, Lindsey B. Green-Simms