African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2019
1 pages
978-1-9787-5449-2 (ISBN)
Description
A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.
This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.
This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-5449-2 (9781978754492)
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Lifongo Vetindeis professor of French and francophone studies at Lawrence University.
Jean-Blaise Samou is assistant professor of francophone and intercultural studies at Saint Mary's University.
Jean-Blaise Samou is assistant professor of francophone and intercultural studies at Saint Mary's University.
Content
Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa
Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou
Part I: Foundational Visions
Chapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature
Adrien Mbar Pouille
Chapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness
Thomas Spreelin MacDonald
Chapter Three: "Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel
Lifongo Vetinde
Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence
Chapter Four: "Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction
Marie-Thérèse Toyi
Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism
Hervé Tchumkam
Chapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon
Jean-Blaise Samou
Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights
Chapter Seven: Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism
Uchenna David Uwakwe
Chapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present
Koni Benson
Chapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones
Mohamed Kamara
Chapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes
Janice Spleth
Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou
Part I: Foundational Visions
Chapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature
Adrien Mbar Pouille
Chapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness
Thomas Spreelin MacDonald
Chapter Three: "Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel
Lifongo Vetinde
Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence
Chapter Four: "Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction
Marie-Thérèse Toyi
Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism
Hervé Tchumkam
Chapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon
Jean-Blaise Samou
Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights
Chapter Seven: Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism
Uchenna David Uwakwe
Chapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present
Koni Benson
Chapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones
Mohamed Kamara
Chapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes
Janice Spleth
