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Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2011
182 pages
978-1-136-65989-8 (ISBN)
Description
European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have taken, and arguing for a selective appropriation of theory that emerges from Africa's lived experiences.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
0,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-65989-8 (9781136659898)
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Abebe Zegeye | Maurice Vambe
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Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy
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Persons
Abebe Zegeye is Director of the Hawke Institute at the University of South Australia.
Maurice Vambe is Professor in the Department of English Studies at University of South Africa.
Maurice Vambe is Professor in the Department of English Studies at University of South Africa.
Content
1. Introduction: The Assault on African Cultures 2. Notes on Theorising Black Diaspora in Africa 3. On the Postcolony and the Vulgarisation of Political Criticism 4. Rethinking the Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa 5. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems 6. Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa 7. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis of Africa's Renaissances 8. Amilcar Cabral and the Fortunes of African Literature 9. Perspectives on Africanising Educational Curricula in Africa 10. Voices from the Fringes: Some Reflections on Postcolonial South African Writings
