South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films Fiction and the role of Africa

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Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0525645810

Turning to an orphan girl’s West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall

South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films Fiction and the role of AfricaDespite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much needed study, author Litheko Modisane delves into the public critical engagements around old 'renegade' films and newer ones, revealing instructive details both in the production and the public lives of South African