New Books Network: Postcolonial Automobility

Review of Postcolonial Automobility by Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture

Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, and dependent on vast the vast infrastructures of road networks, and oil production. 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.

 

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