Book description
What happens when social and political processes such as
globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers
and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the
forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a
globalized world. He tackles problems such as artistic representation
in the era of decolonization, the uneven development of aesthetics
across the world, and the impact of location and commodity culture on
genres, with a distinctive approach that exposes the global processes
transforming cultural forms.
"Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics thinks politics,
art, aesthetics, modes of media production, and ideas about home,
always dynamically, through the lens of expatriation. The book offers
a necessary alternative to 'globalization' and lends 'postcoloniality'
a shot in the critical and theoretical arm. It not only brings
together various postcolonial locales (the Caribbean, the Asian
subcontinent, Africa, the diaspora), but enacts how they should be
thought together." -Grant Farred, Cornell University
Akin Adesokan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at
Indiana University Bloomington and author of the novel Roots in the
Sky. His writings have appeared in Screen, Textual Practice,
Chimurenga, and Research in African Literatures.
