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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.

Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash 2. Rancière: Aesthetics, Its Mésententes and Discontents 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash 4. Globalization's Dumping Groun:, The Case of Trafigura 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La Nuit de la vérité 8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water 9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Herói and Daratt 11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement 12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

About the Author :
Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (IUP, 2007).

Review :
Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014 Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics—whether from the north or the south—and the aesthetic order of high cinema. Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014 Trash inspires a rigorous questioning of how we think about 'Africa from below' in our scholarly research: it is a speculative, probing, provocative book filled with questions about power, exclusion, representation, and subjectivity, and about how African cinema engages social realities without necessarily serving up palatable dishes of realism or political critique. This book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253007575
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253007577
  • Publisher Date: 09 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: African Cinema from Below


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