Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Generic Transformations at the Crossroads of Capital
1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily
2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism
3. Tunde Kelani's Nollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation
4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism
5. Imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips's Atlantic World
6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire
Conclusion: Being African in the World

Notes
List of References
Filmography
Index

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Discusses the literary and artistic effects of globalisation

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"This book is a significant intervention in debates on post-colonialism and a model of intellectual ambition in its constant crossing of disciplinary and generic boundaries." Jonathan Haynes, Long Island University