History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

Sara Hanaburgh is Assistant Professor of French at St. John's University, USA. She is co-translator of Boubacar Boris Diop’s Kaveena (2016) and translator of The Fury and Cries of Women (2014). She has published in Warscapes and Dictionary of African Biography.

• Introduction (Sara Hanaburgh,St John's University, USA)Chapter 1: Decolonizing the Gaze: Pioneering African Cinema and Adaptation as Political Act (1953-1969)(Vlad Dima, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)Chapter 2: Adaptation and Revolutionary Aesthetics (1970-1982) (Lizelle Bisschoff, University of Glasgow, UK)Chapter 3: Re-Framing History, National Identity and Social Life: Adaptation in Troubled Decades (1980s-1990s) (Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS, University of London, UK)Chapter 4: Toward a More Commercially Viable Filmmaking: Popular Theatre and Market Literature Adapted for African Screens (1990-2000)(Manouchka Kelly Labouba, University of Southern California, USA)Chapter 5: From Book to Film to Digital Event (200-2010) (Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut, USA)Chapter 6: The New Look of World Literature on Screen (2008-present) (Sara Hanaburgh, St. John's University, USA)Conclusion (Sara Hanaburgh)BibliographyAppendices Index