African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media
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African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media
(African expressive cultures)
Indiana University Press, c2015
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-293) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an "original" or "faithful copy," but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Major Wicked: Embodying Cultural Difference
2. Lance Spearman: An African James Bond
3. Black Titanic: Pirating the White Star Liner
4. Vice and Videos: Kanywood under Duress
5. Dar 2 Lagos: Nollywood in Tanzania
6. Branding bin Laden: The Global "War on Terror" on a Local Stage
7. Master and Mugu: Orientalist Mimicry and Cybercrime
8. "Crazy White Men": Un/doing Difference in African Popular Music
Coda: Mimesis and Media in Africa
Notes
References
Films
Index
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