Luning, H.A. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics of the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands) and Department of Agricultural Economics of the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1967
Published:
USA: 15(1967) : 161-169
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: B05504
164 p., Explores four contemporary novels and a film that rely heavily on photographic and mass-media images to illuminate, articulate, and critique modern-day Black urban existence: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco (1997), Chris Abani's Graceland (2004), John Edgar Wideman's Fanon , Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus (1997), and Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film adaptation of Lins' novel City of God . Chapters examine the ways in which photographic and/or mass-media images are used as narrative tropes or devices for representing the material conditions of an emerging slum existence. The author argues that each text reveals a preoccupation with the rise of global urbanism and visual culture as new types of discursive spaces--new kinds of "texts"-- that shape not only the real life of black people, but also the literary landscape of Black writing across the globe.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: C00764
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, In Development Communications in the Third World: Proceedings of a Midwest Regional Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 15, 1983 (pp. 26-37). Urbana, Illinois: College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (International Agriculture Publications General Series No. 2).
