THE GLOBAL SOUTH 6.2 (Fall 2012)
Nollywood and the Global South
The Global South is an interdisciplinary journal,
published semiannually by Indiana University
Press. The journal focuses on how world
literatures and cultures respond to
globalization. Its premise is that the various
Southsfrom the North American South to the
European South, Latin and Central America,
Africa, Asia, and Australiashare comparable
experiences that differentiate them from
mainstream and hegemonic cultures in their
locations. Since many of these Souths share not
necessarily a common wealth, but various issues
of marginalization and inadequate access to means
of production and amenities under globalization,
TGS is concerned with the intersections among
their experiences. The journal is interested in
how authors, writers, and critics respond to
issues of the environment; poverty; immigration;
gender; race; hybridity; cultural formation and
transformation; colonialism and postcolonialism;
modernity and postmodernity; transatlantic
encounters, homes, and diasporas; resistance and
counter discourse; among others under the
superordinate umbrella of globalization. This
Call for Papers is for a special issue on Nollywood and the Global South.
Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is one of
the fastest growing movie industries in the
world. In terms of creativity and inventiveness,
Nollywood movies provide a good example of
Africans consuming what they produce. The
responses of people of African descent in the
Diaspora and in the Global South as well as those
of people all over the world to the phenomenon of
Nollywood raise critical social, economic,
literary, and cultural questions about
globalization and interculturalism. In this issue
of The Global South, we invite essays from
scholars working in all areas of African and film
studies on all aspects of Nollywood,
globalization, and the global south, including
essays on the history and emergence of
Nollywood, how Nollywood acts as an agent of
globalization and how it contests globalization
by promoting local discourses, how Nollywood
functions as an alternative means of cultural
representation, counter-discourse, and cultural
renaissance, as well as articles on theory and
aesthetics. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
History of Nollywood
The Future of Nollywood
Reality in/and Nollywood
Karma and Nollywood
African Morality and Nollywood
Nollywood and Auto/biography
Nollywood and Cultural Renaissance
Nollywood and Tradition
Nollywood and Religion
Nollywood and Race
Nollywood and Gender
Nollywood and Class
Nollywood and Ethnicity
Nollywood and Globalization
Nollywood and the Nigerian Music Industry
Nollywood and Aesthetics
Nollywood and Nigerian Politics
Nollywood and the African Diaspora
Nollywood, Hollywood, and Bollywood
Nollywood and Language
Nollywood and Orality
Nollywood and Madness
Nollywood and Cultural Conflict
Nollywood and Marriage
Nollywood and Crime
Nollywood and Reflections on Africa
This Special Issue of The Global South (co-edited
by Adetayo Alabi, Ifeanyi Ezeonu, and Kolawole
Olaiya) is scheduled for publication in Fall
2012. Please submit abstracts and a short bio by
November 4, 2011, final drafts of essays by March
4, 2011, and inquiries to Adetayo Alabi,
<mailto:aalabi@olemiss.edu>aalabi@olemiss.edu.
Essays should be 25-35 double-spaced pages long
and should follow the MLA style.
You can read more about The Global South at
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=globalsouth
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