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Introduction: rethinking African cultural production / Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow -- The critical present: where is "African literature"? / Eileen Julien -- African writers challenge conventions of postcolonial literary history / Olabode Ibironke -- Provocations: African societies and theories of creativity / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- In praise of the alphabet / Patrice Nganang -- African cultural studies: of travels, accents, and epistemologies / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Le freak, c'est critical and chic: North African scholars and the conditions of cultural production in post-9/11 U.S. academia / Lamia Benyoussef -- Reading "beur" film production otherwise: the poetics of the human and the transcultural / Safoi Babana-Hampton -- Revealing the past, conceptualizing the future on-screen: the social, political, and economic challenges of contemporary filmmaking in Morocco / Valerie K. Orlando -- Thresholds of new African dramaturgies in France today / Maria Minich Brewer -- Island geography as creole biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian literary production / Magali Compan

An introduction to a special issue on, "Cultural Production in a Digital Age," points out how digital libraries & electronic communication networks have facilitated scholarly production & changed the way scholars & academic institutions operate. The articles in this volume explore how new technologies have altered cultural production in a wide range of fields, from journalism to gambling, social movements to marketing. Some specific topics discussed by the multi-disciplinary contributors include the fate of cultural products distributed through digital channels; relationships between technological development & the political economy of media, marketing, & entertainment fields; the nature of cultural politics online; & the existence of digital clusters. The three organizing schools of thought that address, & often disagree, about the extent, pace, & character of cultural changes generated by digital technologies are identified as digital revolutionaries; cyber-skeptics; & cultural evolutionists. Key arguments of each school are explored, along with the advantages/disadvantages of the sociology of culture approach for analyzes of the role of new technologies. 61 References. J. Lindroth

Given that the production of sexual subjects is inextricably bound to language, theorists Lee Edelman and Jasbir Puar investigate the imbrication of the sexual subject in discourses of the Child (Edelman 2004) and the nation-state (Puar 2007). Through an interdisciplinary lens, this essay builds on their conceptual frameworks in its examination of homoerotics and the figure of the Child in Cuban cultural production. Of interest is how peripheral verbal and visual language challenge discourses that fold the sexual subject and the Child into the good of the nation and the coherence of the social order. In Edelman's argument (2004: 3), the Child and queerness are held apart: the Child is bound to futurity given that the "political order […] returns to the Child as the image of the future it intends" and queerness figures "the place of the social order's death drive." The queer poetics of the peripheral language examined in this essay revise the trajectory of Child to "true man," creating new space for movement of the queer subject and the Child in the political field.