Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe

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Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136659898
• Artikelnr.: 38270713

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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