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[ecrea] New Book Africa, Cultural Studies and Difference

Thu Feb 24 14:18:30 GMT 2011



Africa, Cultural Studies and Difference


Cultural Studies has evolved and continues to evolve primarily along regional lines. however uncomfortable this might be, the genie of British cultural studies cannot be returned to the bottle of history. Thus, national versions of cultural studies have arisen in a few African countries. This book engages two critical and seemingly contradictory tasks: i) to contribute to the development of cultural studies from the perspectives of African experiences and indigenous frames of reference; and ii) to examine these in terms of transnational trajectories of the field in ways that do not reduce them to one or other context. Much cultural studies remains concerned with Texts, often disconnected from their contexts. For the authors published here, the contexts include African philosophies, cosmologies and ontologies. It includes the writings of both residential natives and those who have re-located to the diaspora, a spread that opens conversations with international approaches that include and exclude African experiences and work. This anthology juxtaposes many different kinds of cultural studies done in different parts of the world as a means of creating a global dialogue around the signifier of 'Africa'.
     This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Keyan Tomaselli is Senior Professor and Director of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu -Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is editor of Critical Arts: South- North Cultural and Media Studies and co-editor of the Journal of African Cinemas.

Handel Kashope Wright is Professor, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for culture, Identity and Education at the University of British Columbia.

First published 2011
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, Ox14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

ISBN13: 978-0-415-61742-0

<http://www.remote-sensing.routledge.com/books/details/9780415617420/>http://www.remote-sensing.routledge.com/books/details/9780415617420/

CONTENTS


1. Introduction: African Cultural Studies
Keyan G. Tomaselli & Handel Kashope Wright 1



2. Africanicity in Black Cinema: A conjunctural ground for new expressions of identity

Boulou Ebanda de Bâ??béri 15



3. Beyond the tradition/Modernity Dialectic: African nationalist subjectives in South African print and visual culture of the early twentieth century

Lize van Robbroeck 37



4. The New Flâneur: Subaltern cultural studies, African youth in Canada and the semiology of in-bwtweenness

Awad Ibrahim 62



5. Outliving Generations: youth traversing borders through popular music in everyday urban life in East Africa

Fibian Kavulani Lukalo 82



6. â??Surviving the Futureâ??: Towards a South African cultural studies

Natasha Distiller 101



7. Facekuerade: The transformational duality in Ebira-Ekuechi festival performance

Sunday Ododo 112



8. Europe and African Thought Systems and Philosophies of Education: â??Re-culturingâ?? the trans-temporal discourses

Ali A. Abdi 137



9. An African Presence in Europe: Potraits of Somali elders

Glenn Jordan 156



Index 182



Notes on Contributors 189




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