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Professor green-simms’ book, postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa (u of minnesota press, 2017), examines how the contradictions of globalization are embedded in the commodity of the automobile and in the ideals of automobility. She is also working on a second book on queer african cinema.
Rian automobility and car culture look like in two distinct postcolonial moments. In the 1990s, when nigeria was under the military rule of sani abacha and before ifemelu left for america, “the country was starved of hope, cars stuck for days in long, sweaty petrol lines, pensioners rais- ing wilting placards demanding their pay (55).
Green-simms postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa university of minnesota press, 2017.
Published in print: 2017; published online: may 2018; isbn: 9781517901141.
Through new and provocative readings of famous plays, novels, and films, as well as recent popular videos, postcolonial automobility reveals the surprising ways in which automobility in the region is, at once, an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life.
Dec 3, 2019 postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa.
Green-simms’s postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa.
Green-simms produces a veritable sociocultural biography of the automobile and illustrates this through various sources including literary texts, african art and popular movies, the variable opinions of car owners and their users, and the multiple urban legends that have grown up with and around vehicles in this part of africa. It is a beautifully written gift offering to this most desired object of african modernity.
Book description: for more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in west africa.
Lindsey green-simms, postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa (minneapolis: university of minnesota press), 2017. Jennifer hart is an associate professor of history at wayne state university, where she teaches courses in african history, digital history, history communication, and world history.
And material culture studies, has submitted the car to a rigorous socio- logical imagination,1 and struction, and the climate change the automobile has helped cause, even as mainstream imagination in postcolonial niger.
Green-simms produces a veritable socio-cultural biography of the automobile and illustrates this through various sources including literary texts, african art and popular movies, the variable opinions of car owners and their users, and the multiple urban legends that have grown up with and around vehicles in this part of africa.
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Nov 5, 2017 romance—americanah affords readers a specific insight into what nigerian automobility and car culture look like in two distinct postcolonial.
Postcolonial automobility: car culture in west africa (university of minnesota press, 2019) examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of west african films, novels, plays, and poems. From the melodramas of nollywood to the socialist realism of ousmane semebene, african artists have delved into the pleasures and anxieties of the road to theorize capitalist development, globalization, patriarchy, and the ethics of accumulation.
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Here, then, so many of the contradictions of modern lagos play out on the road, in cars, and around cars. Though it is a novel about so many things—race, gender, migration, romance— americanah.
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