Lindsey B Green-Simms
Biographic Data
| ID | 3423600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey B Green-Simms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey B |
| FAMILY NAME | Green-Simms |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN-SIMMS L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fugitive Time
Matthew Omelsky’s Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond is a groundbreaking exploration of global Black aesthetics that makes palpable what, in Omelsky’s words, it “might feel like to be free of the violence that has consumed blackness throughout the world for centuries” (3). Fugitive time, then, is how Omelsky names this imagination, an imagination that is rooted in anticipatory moments and that chases freedom and the unburdening…
Queer African Cinemas
In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic pra…
Making Waves
In an article titled "Impossible Africans," the queer Cameroonian po liti cal scientist S. N. Nyeck (2008, 6) argues that, within mainstream African discourse, queer African subjects are considered to be "impossible" or unimaginable, not because homosexual desire itself is seen to be impossible but because queer Africans are considered to be noncitizens, or misnomers, held somewhere in suspension, somewhere in the shadows of the state and the soc…
Queer African Cinemas
Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities
Method and Antimethod
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Walking with Shadows
In 2005 Jude Dibia published the ground-breaking novel Walking with Shadows, the first West African novel to feature a gay protagonist. Dibia’s widely acclaimed book tells the story of Adrian Ebele
Postcolonial Automobility and the collision of forms
This article responds to:Fueling automobility: thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms's Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West AfricaThe materiality of automobilityAutomobility in the social imaginaryAfrican autonomy and car culture
The Return of the Mercedes
Chapter 4 examines the popular and low-budget Nollywood video films where the private luxury car is both a highly coveted object, typically seen driving down paved roads in posh neighborhoods, and a sign of wealth that is often acquired through criminality, witchcraft, magic, or fraud.
Moving Pictures, Mired Cars
Chapter 3 turns to Francophone cinema, discussing in detail Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quartier Mozart . While media scholars like Kristin Ross have often focused on the shared qualities of film and cars—such as movement, image, standardization, mechanization, and displacement—this chapter discusses how African Francophone films reconfigure the link between the moving image and the moving vehicle by disallowing the automobile…
“No Danger No Delay”
Chapter 2 focuses on the tragedy of motorcar accidents through a close reading of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s 1965 post-independence play The Road about Nigerian lorry drivers living on the urban periphery . This chapter reads the road as a Bakhtinian chronotope – a space-time matrix – that includes various lived times of postcoloniality.
Cars, Cultural Production, and Global Modernity
The motor-car is the epitome of “objects,” the Leading-Object, and this fact should be kept in mind. —Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World Anyone who thinks evil of you, may this car run them over in their sleep. This car will hunt out your enemies, pursue their bad spirits, grind them into the road. Your car will drive over fire and be safe. It will drive into the ocean and be safe. It has friends in the spirit world. Its friend the…
Global (Be)Longings
You have crossed that awkward, deeply uncomfortable, sometimes shameful social state of being without a car. I mean in some countries where the public transport system works, not having a car is no big deal. But you are in Nigeria, where public transport is living hell, and owning a car can be the difference between life and social death....
Women in Traffic
Chapter 5 looks at the way that feminist texts re-write and work in dialogue with the male-centered films and novels where the car is a sign of patriarchal power and capitalist achievement. This chapter argues that in films and novels where women are the drivers, the car figures much less as a sign of upward mobility and elite status and instead highlights the ambivalence with which financially independent women move through West African urban ce…
The Hum of Progress
Chapter 1 focuses on the history of motorization from the colonial moment to the decolonizing decades following World War II. Examining various events or episodes alongside key literary and cinematic texts, this chapter explores the many ambivalences and conflicts present in the process of motorization. The chapter also discuss how African entrepreneurs took the lead in importing automobiles and establishing a system of transportation while Europ…
Postcolonial Automobility
Postcolonial Automobility discusses how the automobile, with its promise of autonomous, unfettered mobility is a paradigmatic object through which one can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Though automobile ownership is among the lowest in the world and accident rates are some of the highest, automobility in West Africa remains a powerful discourse about the construction of the modern self and about the…
Postcolonial Automobility
Occult Melodramas
This essay examines the aesthetic dimensions of the “occult melodramas” of West African video-films by discussing how filmmakers use the technology of video to recreate the sensuous impact of daily rumors that speak to spiritual and socioeconomic anxieties. Given that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflict…
Postcolonial Automobility
No Danger No Delay
This article examines the way in which the road functions in Wole Soyinka's work as a Bakhtinian chronotope that gives shape to the paradoxical symbolism and dangerous reality of Nigerian roads. After briefly examining Soyinka's poem "Death in the Dawn", where Soyinka first articulates the psychological consequences of road accidents, it turns to discuss his play The Road. It highlights the ways in which various chronotopes interact dialogically …
Postcolonial Automobility
Postcolonial Automobility discusses how the automobile, with its promise of autonomous, unfettered mobility is a paradigmatic object through which one can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Though automobile ownership is among the lowest in the world and accident rates are some of the highest, automobility in West Africa remains a powerful discourse about the construction of the modern self and about the…
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Occult Melodramas
This essay examines the aesthetic dimensions of the “occult melodramas” of West African video-films by discussing how filmmakers use the technology of video to recreate the sensuous impact of daily rumors that speak to spiritual and socioeconomic anxieties. Given that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflict…
Walking with Shadows
In 2005 Jude Dibia published the ground-breaking novel Walking with Shadows, the first West African novel to feature a gay protagonist. Dibia’s widely acclaimed book tells the story of Adrian Ebele
No Danger No Delay
This article examines the way in which the road functions in Wole Soyinka's work as a Bakhtinian chronotope that gives shape to the paradoxical symbolism and dangerous reality of Nigerian roads. After briefly examining Soyinka's poem "Death in the Dawn", where Soyinka first articulates the psychological consequences of road accidents, it turns to discuss his play The Road. It highlights the ways in which various chronotopes interact dialogically …
Postcolonial Automobility and the collision of forms
This article responds to:Fueling automobility: thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms's Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West AfricaThe materiality of automobilityAutomobility in the social imaginaryAfrican autonomy and car culture
Postcolonial Automobility
No Danger No Delay
This article examines the way in which the road functions in Wole Soyinka's work as a Bakhtinian chronotope that gives shape to the paradoxical symbolism and dangerous reality of Nigerian roads. After briefly examining Soyinka's poem "Death in the Dawn", where Soyinka first articulates the psychological consequences of road accidents, it turns to discuss his play The Road. It highlights the ways in which various chronotopes interact dialogically …
Occult Melodramas
This essay examines the aesthetic dimensions of the “occult melodramas” of West African video-films by discussing how filmmakers use the technology of video to recreate the sensuous impact of daily rumors that speak to spiritual and socioeconomic anxieties. Given that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflict…
The Return of the Mercedes
Chapter 4 examines the popular and low-budget Nollywood video films where the private luxury car is both a highly coveted object, typically seen driving down paved roads in posh neighborhoods, and a sign of wealth that is often acquired through criminality, witchcraft, magic, or fraud.
Moving Pictures, Mired Cars
Chapter 3 turns to Francophone cinema, discussing in detail Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quartier Mozart . While media scholars like Kristin Ross have often focused on the shared qualities of film and cars—such as movement, image, standardization, mechanization, and displacement—this chapter discusses how African Francophone films reconfigure the link between the moving image and the moving vehicle by disallowing the automobile…
“No Danger No Delay”
Chapter 2 focuses on the tragedy of motorcar accidents through a close reading of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s 1965 post-independence play The Road about Nigerian lorry drivers living on the urban periphery . This chapter reads the road as a Bakhtinian chronotope – a space-time matrix – that includes various lived times of postcoloniality.
Cars, Cultural Production, and Global Modernity
The motor-car is the epitome of “objects,” the Leading-Object, and this fact should be kept in mind. —Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World Anyone who thinks evil of you, may this car run them over in their sleep. This car will hunt out your enemies, pursue their bad spirits, grind them into the road. Your car will drive over fire and be safe. It will drive into the ocean and be safe. It has friends in the spirit world. Its friend the…
Global (Be)Longings
You have crossed that awkward, deeply uncomfortable, sometimes shameful social state of being without a car. I mean in some countries where the public transport system works, not having a car is no big deal. But you are in Nigeria, where public transport is living hell, and owning a car can be the difference between life and social death....
Women in Traffic
Chapter 5 looks at the way that feminist texts re-write and work in dialogue with the male-centered films and novels where the car is a sign of patriarchal power and capitalist achievement. This chapter argues that in films and novels where women are the drivers, the car figures much less as a sign of upward mobility and elite status and instead highlights the ambivalence with which financially independent women move through West African urban ce…
The Hum of Progress
Chapter 1 focuses on the history of motorization from the colonial moment to the decolonizing decades following World War II. Examining various events or episodes alongside key literary and cinematic texts, this chapter explores the many ambivalences and conflicts present in the process of motorization. The chapter also discuss how African entrepreneurs took the lead in importing automobiles and establishing a system of transportation while Europ…
Postcolonial Automobility
Postcolonial Automobility discusses how the automobile, with its promise of autonomous, unfettered mobility is a paradigmatic object through which one can assess the pleasures, dangers, and limits of global modernity in West Africa. Though automobile ownership is among the lowest in the world and accident rates are some of the highest, automobility in West Africa remains a powerful discourse about the construction of the modern self and about the…
Postcolonial Automobility
Postcolonial Automobility and the collision of forms
This article responds to:Fueling automobility: thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms's Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West AfricaThe materiality of automobilityAutomobility in the social imaginaryAfrican autonomy and car culture
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Walking with Shadows
In 2005 Jude Dibia published the ground-breaking novel Walking with Shadows, the first West African novel to feature a gay protagonist. Dibia’s widely acclaimed book tells the story of Adrian Ebele
Queer African Cinemas
In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic pra…
Making Waves
In an article titled "Impossible Africans," the queer Cameroonian po liti cal scientist S. N. Nyeck (2008, 6) argues that, within mainstream African discourse, queer African subjects are considered to be "impossible" or unimaginable, not because homosexual desire itself is seen to be impossible but because queer Africans are considered to be noncitizens, or misnomers, held somewhere in suspension, somewhere in the shadows of the state and the soc…
Queer African Cinemas
Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities
Method and Antimethod
Fugitive Time
Matthew Omelsky’s Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond is a groundbreaking exploration of global Black aesthetics that makes palpable what, in Omelsky’s words, it “might feel like to be free of the violence that has consumed blackness throughout the world for centuries” (3). Fugitive time, then, is how Omelsky names this imagination, an imagination that is rooted in anticipatory moments and that chases freedom and the unburdening…
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