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Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ (2023)
Journal Article
Bello, S. A. (2023). Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ. Film and Philosophy, 27, 89-103. https://doi.org/10.5840/filmphil2022111421

This article discusses a relationship between the philosophical praxis of Ọ̀rúnmìlà and aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú (i.e., the costume of the living and the costume of the dead) in Saworoidẹ (dir. Túndé Kèlání’s, 1999). I construct the Yorùbá/Ọ̀rúnmì... Read More about Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ.

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation (2022)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Khan, S. (in press). Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation. Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

This article’s premise is that war is ontological devastation, and that this opens up questions as to how to write about it. It contends that even critiques of war, whether critical-geopolitical analyses of global structures or ethnographies of the e... Read More about Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.

Saffron in the Rasam (2011)
Book Chapter
Cox, W. (2011). Saffron in the Rasam. In Y. Bronner (Ed.), South Asian Texts in History: critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock (177-201). Association for Asian Studies