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Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
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Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa

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Through the lens of the automobile, Lindsey B. Green-Simms considers the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. With readings of famous plays, novels, and films and recent popular videos, she reveals how automobility in the region is an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 January 2018
Pages
280
ISBN
9781517901141

Through the lens of the automobile, Lindsey B. Green-Simms considers the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. With readings of famous plays, novels, and films and recent popular videos, she reveals how automobility in the region is an everyday practice, an ethos, a fantasy of autonomy, and an affective activity intimately tied to modern social life.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 January 2018
Pages
280
ISBN
9781517901141