Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan.

Introduction: Rethinking African Cultural Production Frieda Ekotto and Ken Harrow1. The Critical Present: Where Is "African Literature"? Eileen Julien2. African Writers Challenge Conventions of Postcolonial Literary History Olabode Ibironke3. Provocations: African Societies and Theories of Creativity Moradewun Adejunmobi4. In Praise of the Alphabet Patrice Nganang5. African Cultural Studies: Of Travels, Accents, and Epistemologies Tejumola Olaniyan6. Le Freak, C'est Critical and Chic: North African Scholars and the Conditions of Cultural Production in Post 9/11 U.S. Academia Lamia Benyoussef7. Reading 'Beur' Film Production Otherwise: The Poetics of the Human and the Transcultural Safoi Babana-Hampton8. Revealing the Past, Conceptualizing the Future on Screen: The Social, Political and Economic Challenges of Contemporary Filmmaking in Morocco Valérie K. Orlando9. Theorizing New African Dramaturgies in France Mária Minich Brewer10. Island Geography as Creole Biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian Literary ProductionMagali CompanList of ContributorsIndex