The 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)

Bibliography
Appendices
Index