Lindsey Green-Simms
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey Green-Simms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Green-Simms |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN-SIMMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University, Washington, DC |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
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
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 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
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
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 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
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…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)