Trash

"Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context . . . . highly original and deeply historicized."

~Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan

"Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014"

~Transnational Cinemas

"Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics—whether from the north or the south—and the aesthetic order of high cinema."

~African Arts

"Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014"

~African Studies Review

"Trash inspires a rigorous questioning of how we think about 'Africa from below' in our scholarly research: it is a speculative, probing, provocative book filled with questions about power, exclusion, representation, and subjectivity, and about how African cinema engages social realities without necessarily serving up palatable dishes of realism or political critique."

~Journal of African History

"This book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended."

~Choice