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Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii introduction: Generic t ransformations at the Crossroads of Capital 1 1. C. L. R. James Sees the World Steadily 30 2. Fitful Decolonization: Xala and the Poetics of Double Fetishism 57 3. t unde Kelani’s n ollywood: Aesthetics of Exhortation 81 4. Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the Challenges of Aesthetic Populism 108 5. imaginary Citizenship: Caryl Phillips’s Atlantic World 133 6. Spirits of Bandung: A Sarcastic Subject Writes to Empire 156 Conclusion: Being African in the World 178 n otes 185 List of References 203 Filmography 219 index 223 ...