Description
Book SynopsisUses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how African films have depicted the globalized world
Trade ReviewKenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014
* Transnational Cinemas *
Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics—whether from the north or the south—and the aesthetic order of high cinema.
* African Arts *
Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014
* African Studies Review *
Trash inspires a rigorous questioning of how we think about 'Africa from below' in our scholarly research: it is a speculative, probing, provocative book filled with questions about power, exclusion, representation, and subjectivity, and about how African cinema engages social realities without necessarily serving up palatable dishes of realism or political critique.
* Journal of African History *
This book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash
2. Rancière: Aesthetics, Its Mésententes and Discontents
3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash
4. Globalization's Dumping Groun:, The Case of Trafigura
5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty
6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle
7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La Nuit de la vérité
8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water
9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality
10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Herói and Daratt
11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement
12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
