African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

Herausgeber: Samou, Jean-Blaise; Vetinde, Lifongo J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781498587563
• ISBN-10: 1498587569
• Artikelnr.: 57753624

Autorenporträt

Lifongo Vetinde is 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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