Introduction Part One: Space and Relationality 1. Sembène Ousmane, "Borom Sarret" and Framing the Questions of Science 2. John Akomfrah, Nine Muses 3. Dyana Gaye, Des Etoiles Part Two: Time 4. Time and Kentridge: Georges Méliès, "Le Voyage dans la lune" and William Kentridge, "The Refusal of Time," "Felix in Exile" 5. Abbas Kiarostami, ABC Africa and 24 Frames 6. Chris Marker, Sans Soleil 7. Mati Diop, Mille Soleils Conclusion
Biography
Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature, Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing, Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism, and Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below. He has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African literature and cinema, including, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film.
"Kenneth Harrow’s book innovatively places science in conversation with African films. This pairing leads to the groundbreaking possibility that multiple kinds of time exist in and around the cinematic experience. From this hypothesis, Harrow reframes our relationship with cinema and moves the field of African cinema into much-needed new territory."
Vlad Dima, Professor & Chair, Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
