Cargando…
Africans and the politics of popular culture /
This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that cultur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2009.
|
| Colección: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From primitive to popular culture : why Kant never made it to Africa / Hetty ter Haar
- Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices / Augustine Agwuele
- Justice from below : cultural capital, local-global identity processes, and social change in Eastern Niger / Antoinette Tidjani Alou
- Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon / Emmanuel M. Mbah
- Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? : a Nigerian church in Europe / Asonzeh Ukah
- Performing pop tradition in Nigeria : from Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / Debra L. Klein
- Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? : transforming the self in contemporary American cinema / Celeste A. Fisher
- Neither bold nor beautiful : investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi
- The lions in the jungle : representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt
- Sexuality in Caribbean performance : homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad / Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson
- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe Adejumo
- Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora / Nicholas M. Creary
- Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola.