Author: V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-09
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780226545073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes special issues.
Author: Publishing Firm PRÉSENCE AFRICAINE
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Published: 1963
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Abiola Irele
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 0195334736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe. The term "African thought" has been interpreted in the broadest sense to embrace all those forms of discourse - philosophy, political thought, religion, literature, important social movements - that contribute to the formulation of a distinctive vision of the world determined by or derived from the African experience. The Encyclopedia is a large-scale work of 350 entries covering major topics involved in the development of African Thought including historical figures and important social movements, producing a collection that is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent research, and a solid guide for further study.
Author: O. R. Dathorne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0816607699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Author: Klaus Benesch
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789042008809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the humanities, the term 'diaspora' recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars addresses these issues and helps to ground the ongoing debate about the African diaspora in a more solid theoretical framework. Part I is dedicated to a general discussion of the concept of African diaspora, its origins and historical development. Part II examines the complex cultural dimensions of African diasporas in relation to significant sites and figures, including the modes and modalities of creative expression from the perspective of both artists/writers and their audiences; finally, Part III focusses on the resources (collections and archives) and iconographies that are available today. As most authors argue, the African diaspora should not be seen merely as a historical phenomenon, but also as an idea or ideology and an object of representation. By exploring this new ground, the essays assembled here provide important new insights for scholars in American and African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African Studies. The collection is rounded off by an annotated listing of black autobiographies.
Author: Bénédicte Ledent
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 2296446256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dans ce collectif bilingue, les représentations de l'Afrique et des Africains dans différentes expressions artistiques sont étudiées par des chercheurs travaillant dans des contextes (géographiques et linguistiques) différents. La diaspora africaine en particulier reçoit une attention renouvelée, axée sur des manifestations tant actuelles que plus anciennes, tant critiques que créatives.