Postcolonial automobility: West Africa and the road to globalization
[Thesis]
;supervisor: Brennan, Timothy
University of Minnesota: United States -- Minnesota
: 2009
281 pages
Ph.D.
, University of Minnesota: United States -- Minnesota
Through a close textual analysis of characteristic but diverse forms of West African cultural production, including plays, novels, videos, and films, this dissertation examines ways that the contradictions of globalization are embedded in both the commodity of the automobile and in what has been called automobility, the ideal of the fully mobilized self that is coupled with the automobile.