well, our publisher asked us to get the word out. frieda ekotto and i just published a book on African Cultural Production. we mostly are asking about african culture, produced in africa (as in the alphabet chapter by nganang) or abroad, and what does it mean to see african novels, films, etc, emerging from the pens and cameras (ok, computers) of africans living outside africa. the edition was the result of a symposium held on that topic a few years ago jointly by the university of michigan and michigan state university.
here is the publisher's announcement: (i hope it is not too intrusive for me to post this here):
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Now available from Indiana University Press:
Rethinking African Cultural Production
Edited by Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow
"Ekotto and Harrow do an excellent job of contextualizing and framing the new parameters that must be part of the discussion when addressing African cultural production, critical theory, cultural studies, contemporary literature, film, media, the visual, cultural representation, and performance." —Odile Cazenave, Boston University
Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.
214 pp.
cloth 978-0-253-01597-6 $85.00
paper 978-0-253-01600-3 $30.00
ebook 978-0-253-01603-4 $29.99
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-- kenneth w. harrow faculty excellence advocate professor of english michigan state university department of english 619 red cedar road room C-614 wells hall east lansing, mi 48824 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu
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