Tejumola Olaniyan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 138231 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tejumola Olaniyan |
| NOMBRES | Tejumola |
| APELLIDO | Olaniyan |
| FIRMA | OLANIYAN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Africa/Pleasure
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Cosmopolitan Interest Rates
Much scholarly effort over the last two to three decades has been spent debating cosmopolitanism and attacking or refurbishing its older understanding as something owned by the West and a marker of civilization that others should strive for. The criticisms, however, have tended to emphasize the Eurocentric origins and constitutive cultural exclusionism of cosmopolitanism more than anything else. A second and newer origin of cosmopolitanism that i…
Philip Quaque's Letters to London, 1765–1811/Arts of Being Yorùbá
There is the saying out there that there is the tenure book, and there is the love book. The love book is not necessarily the book that follows the tenure book, so chronology is not the critical fa
The literary critic as political sociologist
Abiola Irele’s universal distinction as an accomplished literary scholar has had the unintended effect of occluding his important scholarly engagements with the sociopolitical genre known as the postcolonial state in Africa. That he was not a self-declared radical like many colleagues around him helped the occlusion. And then, the engagements came at critical moments rather than regularly. They were infrequent but always unfailingly substantive a…
Taking African Cartoons Seriously
Biodun Jeyifo
Books and Monographs:Against the Predators’ Republic: Political and Cultural Journalism, 2007-13. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2016.The Locations and Dislocations of African Literature. Tre
Critical Masters
The affirmative, the interstitial
A broad conceptual categorization of the composite field of postcolonial cultural studies using some keywords from the work of Biodun Jeyifo. The article situates Jeyifo's work in that field and profiles in outline form some of his major unique contributions. Apart from perhaps Edward W. Said and Gayatri C. Spivak, there is no other scholar more attentive to the radically dispersed accents of thinking the postcolonial. If many have missed much of…
State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
African-American Critical Discourse and the Invention of Cultural Identities
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Africa, Post-Global
A response to my interlocutors and a reaffirmation, through a consideration of the place of Africa in the modern world, of the post-global as a productive reading frame
Audible Empire
ALA 2014 Presidential Address. Johannesburg, South Africa
I want to begin by thanking Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson and all members of the Planning Committee and Event Planners for the outstanding job they have done in hosting this spectacularly successfu
African Literature in the Post-Global Age
An exploration of African literary studies and what might be its most salient and informed tools of self-constitution and self-understanding in the contemporary moment. More than half a century after formal literary studies emerged in Africa, much of the field is still fixated with a deep suspicion of the true provenance of its own production. The paper theoretically distills some of the expressed or implied evaluative canons of belonging, explor…
African Cultural Studies
Yoruba Art and Language
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The African Diaspora and the Disciplines
Introduction / Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet Part 1. Histories 1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History / Kim D. Butler 2. African Diaspora and Anthropology / Richard Price 3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora / Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin 4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography / Judith A. Carney 5. African Diaspora …
Thinking Afro-Futures
Africana thought within the orbit of Western discourses, from the eighteenth century to the 1970s, conceived the place of the black person in the world in essentially "political" terms. That is, it conceived it as the problematic of a dominated and disenfranchised people in a modern world it helped bring into being but whose benefits are controlled and appropriated primarily by Europe and America. This was the catalyst behind the exertions of the…
Of Rations and Rationalities
The focus of this paper is on the much-acclaimed film, Bamako, released in February 2007 by the notable Malian filmmaker, Abderrahmane Sissako, especially in relation to the depiction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as agents of global capitalism. The paper evaluates the cinematic representation of a conceit no doubt many Africans have at one time or the other imagined or dreamed of even if as mere relieving jest: put …
Femi Osofisan
One of the most common obsessions – perhaps the defining one – of scholarly discourse on the African family is how it has been affected by change. Very often, serious research, theoretical and methodological challenges are side-tracked in the pursuit of showing how the African family had been in an ambiguously specified 'past', and how it is in an equally vaguely defined 'present'. It is as if the African family is worth studying only because it …
Introductory Comments
The articles in this section were first presented at the panel "Reading for the Social: Socio-Cultural Transactions and Ato Quayson's Calibrations"* at the Thirtieth African Literature Association conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2004. The panel itself was part of a new presentation program instituted by the organizers called "Special Seminars." Designed to provide extended time for robustly critical ruminations on …
Arrest the Music
A bold and energetic close-up on one of Africa’s most popular and controversial stars
Arrest The Music
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
African Literature in the Post-Global Age
An exploration of African literary studies and what might be its most salient and informed tools of self-constitution and self-understanding in the contemporary moment. More than half a century after formal literary studies emerged in Africa, much of the field is still fixated with a deep suspicion of the true provenance of its own production. The paper theoretically distills some of the expressed or implied evaluative canons of belonging, explor…
Africa, Post-Global
A response to my interlocutors and a reaffirmation, through a consideration of the place of Africa in the modern world, of the post-global as a productive reading frame
Of Rations and Rationalities
The focus of this paper is on the much-acclaimed film, Bamako, released in February 2007 by the notable Malian filmmaker, Abderrahmane Sissako, especially in relation to the depiction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as agents of global capitalism. The paper evaluates the cinematic representation of a conceit no doubt many Africans have at one time or the other imagined or dreamed of even if as mere relieving jest: put …
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Africa/Pleasure
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The Cosmopolitan Nativist
Even in death, the Nigerian Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-97) remains, without doubt, Africa's most controversial popular musician, and the one with perhaps the largest following outside the continent. Today, no reputable online compact disc store is without a generous sample of the musician's recordings, many of which appear to be no more than opportunistic compilations designed to cash in on the renewed popular interest in the musician since his de…
The affirmative, the interstitial
A broad conceptual categorization of the composite field of postcolonial cultural studies using some keywords from the work of Biodun Jeyifo. The article situates Jeyifo's work in that field and profiles in outline form some of his major unique contributions. Apart from perhaps Edward W. Said and Gayatri C. Spivak, there is no other scholar more attentive to the radically dispersed accents of thinking the postcolonial. If many have missed much of…
"On "Post-Colonial Discourse
global society. It is central to relations of power, diplomacy, and war in the world we live in. It is decisive when the material well-being of humanity is concerned, that is, the ways some people make a living and some people hunger. It presents a fundamental dimension of social inequality and of struggles for social justice. During the last generation it has also become a main challenge to scholarship, a field where the perplexity is deeper, th…
ALA 2014 Presidential Address. Johannesburg, South Africa
I want to begin by thanking Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson and all members of the Planning Committee and Event Planners for the outstanding job they have done in hosting this spectacularly successfu
Narrativizing Postcoloniality
Research Article| January 01 1992 Narrativizing Postcoloniality: Responsibilities Tejumola Olaniyan Tejumola Olaniyan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Sit…
Dramatizing Postcoloniality
One major charge that much of postcolonial African and Caribbean dramatic and theatrical production has been unable to permanently dislodge is their derivative character in relation to Euro-American traditions. melody of Europe, the rhythm of Africa, is how Rex M. Nettleford, the renowned scholar and founder/director of the National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica, articulates the prejudice.' And the Nigerian dramatist, J. P. Clark, observes tha…
Yoruba Art and Language
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Uplift the Race
This is how scared white people have black people [sic]. I was sitting in my office with Mike Tyson and Don King-my office, at Eddie Murphy Productions. only two people that work there that are white are my managers that work for me. And we got on the subject of white people, and the government, and shit like that, and what happened is, we started whispering, The white man . They got you so scared you whisper in your own house about that motherfu…
Afrocentrism
Cosmopolitan Interest Rates
Much scholarly effort over the last two to three decades has been spent debating cosmopolitanism and attacking or refurbishing its older understanding as something owned by the West and a marker of civilization that others should strive for. The criticisms, however, have tended to emphasize the Eurocentric origins and constitutive cultural exclusionism of cosmopolitanism more than anything else. A second and newer origin of cosmopolitanism that i…
The literary critic as political sociologist
Abiola Irele’s universal distinction as an accomplished literary scholar has had the unintended effect of occluding his important scholarly engagements with the sociopolitical genre known as the postcolonial state in Africa. That he was not a self-declared radical like many colleagues around him helped the occlusion. And then, the engagements came at critical moments rather than regularly. They were infrequent but always unfailingly substantive a…
Audible Empire
Thinking Afro-Futures
Africana thought within the orbit of Western discourses, from the eighteenth century to the 1970s, conceived the place of the black person in the world in essentially "political" terms. That is, it conceived it as the problematic of a dominated and disenfranchised people in a modern world it helped bring into being but whose benefits are controlled and appropriated primarily by Europe and America. This was the catalyst behind the exertions of the…
Chinua Achebe and an Archaeology of the Postcolonial African State
Patrick Chabal, the noted political scientist, should certainly have included non-African scholars of Africa too when he argues perceptively in his book, Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation, that African writers "did more to reveal the reality of postcolonial Africa than most African scholars" (8). After all, non-African scholars of Africa actually dominate both the production and dissemination of the myriad of explanations that…
Narrativizing Postcoloniality
Research Article| January 01 1992 Narrativizing Postcoloniality: Responsibilities Tejumola Olaniyan Tejumola Olaniyan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Sit…
Dramatizing Postcoloniality
One major charge that much of postcolonial African and Caribbean dramatic and theatrical production has been unable to permanently dislodge is their derivative character in relation to Euro-American traditions. melody of Europe, the rhythm of Africa, is how Rex M. Nettleford, the renowned scholar and founder/director of the National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica, articulates the prejudice.' And the Nigerian dramatist, J. P. Clark, observes tha…
"On "Post-Colonial Discourse
global society. It is central to relations of power, diplomacy, and war in the world we live in. It is decisive when the material well-being of humanity is concerned, that is, the ways some people make a living and some people hunger. It presents a fundamental dimension of social inequality and of struggles for social justice. During the last generation it has also become a main challenge to scholarship, a field where the perplexity is deeper, th…
The Role of African-American Studies in English Departments Now
Cultural Forces in World Politics
Professor Mazrui, Reith Lecturer and presenter of BBC1's The Africans, makes us reconsider the realities of power in world politics. He argues that the emphasis continues to be on arms, on resources and on strategic calculations and that the importance of culture has been grossly underestimated. Professor Mazrui's own mind is cultural cross-roads; he can give Islamic insights to Western audiences about The Satanic Verses; he relates the Beijing S…
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
Looking in detail at the works of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott, and Shange and their historical trajectories in black anti-Eurocentric discourses, the author offers a sophisticated reading of how these writers are preoccupied with the invention of a post-imperial cultural identity. Drawing on contemporary theory and cultural studies, the author provides an account of the social foundations of an important aesthetic form: the drama of the African dias…
Scars of conquest/masks of resistance
Subjectivities and Institutions
African dramatists' discourses have empowered post-Afrocentric thoughts and territories (quoted in this chapter as space), which generally offset the imperialist and discriminative ideas of European civilizations. Although there are attempts to realize cultural identity after the colonialism period, the next possible question is the actuality of the “space,” even without the contradicted supporting frameworks and conceptual foundations contribute…
Afrocentrism
Uplift the Race
This is how scared white people have black people [sic]. I was sitting in my office with Mike Tyson and Don King-my office, at Eddie Murphy Productions. only two people that work there that are white are my managers that work for me. And we got on the subject of white people, and the government, and shit like that, and what happened is, we started whispering, The white man . They got you so scared you whisper in your own house about that motherfu…
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
Looking in detail at the works of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange and their historical trajectories in black anti-Eurocentric discourses, Olaniyan offers a sophisticated reading of how these writers are preoccupied with the invention of a post-imperial cultural identity. Drawing on contemporary theory and cultural studies, Olaniyan provides a meticulous account of the social foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African…
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre
endeavor present dynamic interaction of performance traditions from all cultures in presentday is further enhanced by the Cambridge Guide Asian Theatre and the present Guide African and Caribbean Theatre. The policy of the original guide to celebrate popular theatre and popular entertainment, also by tracing systematically the indebtedness of art theater popular forms of entertainment has been further developed in the present guide. This Guide co…
Ancient Songs Set Ablaze
Reviewed by: Ancient Songs Set Ablaze: The Theatre of Femi Osofisan Tejumola Olaniyan Ancient Songs Set Ablaze: The Theatre Of Femi Osofisan. Sandra L. Richards. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1996; pp. xiv + 203. $21.95 paper. Ancient Songs Set Ablaze is a long overdue study of one of the most resourceful playwrights on the African continent. Femi Osofisan is the leading Nigerian playwright of the generation immediately after Wole Soyi…
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
Femi Osofisan
In Femi Osofisan's Birthdays Are Not For Dying, Kunle Aremo is heir to a large fortune at the center of which is a business corporation. On his thirtieth birthday, he decides to assume the presidency of the company, in conformity with his father's wishes in the latter's will. Kunle also decides to do something else: clean up the corruption, fraud, and sycophancy that have become endemic in the company. His mother firmly opposes him, implores him …
Drama and Performance
Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa
African performance traditions entered the orbit of European discourse – which, by virtue of language, supplies the operative terms “festival,” “ritual,” and “drama” – primarily as negative examples. As a result, the origins of that entrance were marked in the main by condemnation, inferiorization, and general disregard. It was asserted or implied that blacks either had no traditions of drama indigenous to them, or had traditions that, in compari…
Chinua Achebe and an Archaeology of the Postcolonial African State
Patrick Chabal, the noted political scientist, should certainly have included non-African scholars of Africa too when he argues perceptively in his book, Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation, that African writers "did more to reveal the reality of postcolonial Africa than most African scholars" (8). After all, non-African scholars of Africa actually dominate both the production and dissemination of the myriad of explanations that…
The Cosmopolitan Nativist
Even in death, the Nigerian Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-97) remains, without doubt, Africa's most controversial popular musician, and the one with perhaps the largest following outside the continent. Today, no reputable online compact disc store is without a generous sample of the musician's recordings, many of which appear to be no more than opportunistic compilations designed to cash in on the renewed popular interest in the musician since his de…
Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism
This chapter focuses on the cartooning of anticolonial nationalism in Nigeria. It focuses on the works of Akinola Lasekan, Nigeria's pioneer political cartoonist. It suggests that Lasekan's ideology closely follows that of his mentor Nnamdi Azikiwe: a blend of liberal democratic, welfarist, and socialist precepts forged by the master in the crucible of black racial protests and cultural renaissance in the U.S. of the 1920s and 1930s. It explains …
Arrest the Music
A bold and energetic close-up on one of Africa’s most popular and controversial stars
Arrest The Music
Introductory Comments
The articles in this section were first presented at the panel "Reading for the Social: Socio-Cultural Transactions and Ato Quayson's Calibrations"* at the Thirtieth African Literature Association conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2004. The panel itself was part of a new presentation program instituted by the organizers called "Special Seminars." Designed to provide extended time for robustly critical ruminations on …
Femi Osofisan
One of the most common obsessions – perhaps the defining one – of scholarly discourse on the African family is how it has been affected by change. Very often, serious research, theoretical and methodological challenges are side-tracked in the pursuit of showing how the African family had been in an ambiguously specified 'past', and how it is in an equally vaguely defined 'present'. It is as if the African family is worth studying only because it …
Of Rations and Rationalities
The focus of this paper is on the much-acclaimed film, Bamako, released in February 2007 by the notable Malian filmmaker, Abderrahmane Sissako, especially in relation to the depiction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as agents of global capitalism. The paper evaluates the cinematic representation of a conceit no doubt many Africans have at one time or the other imagined or dreamed of even if as mere relieving jest: put …
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