Postcolonial automobility: West Africa and the road to globalization.

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Postcolonial automobility: West Africa and the road to globalization.

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Green-Simms, Lindsey

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2009-08

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Through a close textual analysis of characteristic but diverse forms of West African cultural production, including plays, novels, videos, and films, this dissertation examines ways that the contradictions of globalization are embedded in both the commodity of the automobile and in what has been called automobility, the ideal of the fully mobilized self that is coupled with the automobile.

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African Film

Cars

Nollywood

Ousmane Sembene

West Africa

Wole Soyinka

Comparative Literature

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Comparative Literature. Advisor: Timothy Brennan. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 275 pages.

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Green-Simms, Lindsey. (2009). Postcolonial automobility: West Africa and the road to globalization.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/54179.

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