Performing Africa

Summary: "Ebron's work is innovative and presented with engaging immediacy. Matching her breadth of interest is her ability to speak to different audiences. With scholarly precision, fine political acumen, and clear writing, Ebron deftly accomplishes what she sets out to do. She presents highly original theoretical reflections on method, a detailed ethnographic study of social interactions, insightful cultural understandings ...of political economy, and specific readings of the imaginative and historical in the construction of 'the Africa.' "--Carolyn Martin Shaw, University of California, Santa Cruz [read more]