Undisciplining Methodologies: Or, Recalling African Subjects from the Shadows of African Cinema Archives.
Writing on African subjects who do not enjoy significant research attention presents methodological problems when there are few or no archival resources from which to draw. This deficit of archive makes them appear to be devoid of epistemic value and illegible within conventional protocols of citati...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 83; no. 2/3; pp. 214 - 231 |
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Jun-Sep2024
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