Critical Dimensions of African Studies

Re-Membering Africa
Herausgeber: De Maio, Jennifer L.; Spencer-Walters, Tom; Scheld, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781666917239
• ISBN-10: 1666917230
• Artikelnr.: 67991171

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jennifer L. De Maio; Suzanne Scheld and Tom Spencer-Walters - Contributions by Senait Admassu; Edwin Aimufua; Jennifer L. De Maio; Rodney B. Hume-Dawson; Raquel Kennon; Sheba Lo; Renee M. Moreno; Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha; Daphne W. Ntiri; Ebenezer

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters
Part I: Language and the International/Transnational Lens
Chapter 1: Tom Spencer-Walters: Intellectual Freedom Fighter by Selase W.
Williams
Chapter 2: Terms Matter: The Use of "Tribe" in African Studies by Jennifer
L. De Maio and Daniel N. Posner
Chapter 3: Speaking Africa: Re-Membering Africa through Language, Culture,
and Aesthetics by Sheba Lo
Chapter 4: "Africa for the Africans" Garvey & African Transnationality: The
Idea of Flexible Citizenship by W. Gabriel Selassie I
Chapter 5: "Back Home This Never Would Have Happened": Imagining Tradition
and Modernity Among Ugandan Pentecostals in Los Angeles by Kevin Zemlicka
Part II: Humanistic Approach
Chapter 6: Bumuntu Humanism and "Values Discourse": Reflection on the
Importance of African Studies in Our Tumultuous Time by Mutombo
Nkulu-N'Sengha
Chapter 7: "Working the Past:" Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in
Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa by Raquel Kennon
Chapter 8: The Power of Memory and Language: Counter-Stories as
Oppositional Remembering by Renee M. Moreno
Chapter 9: Marché Sandaga: The Language of the Built Environment in
Remembering and Re-Membering by Suzanne Scheld
Part III: Critical Theory and Practice
Chapter 10: Africa's Adult Literacy Landscape in The Age of Globalization:
A Path to Increased Access and Change by Daphne W. Ntiri
Chapter 11: Remembering Africa: Memory and The Narrative Imagination in the
Polio Survivor's Experience by Rodney B. Hume-Dawson
Chapter 12: Reconciling Traditional and Nontraditional Approach to Mental
Health Services: African Diaspora Experience by Senait Admassu, Kofi
Peprah, and Edwin Aimufua
Part IV: Conclusion
Afterword by Tom Spencer-Walters
About the Contributors