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Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abebe Zegeye
Otros Autores: Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Colección:Routledge African studies ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The assault on African cultures
  • Notes on theorising Black diaspora in Africa
  • On the postcolony and the vulgarisation of political criticism
  • Rethinking the epistemic conditions of genocide in Africa
  • African Indigenous knowledge systems
  • Knowledge production and publishing in Africa
  • Amilcar Cabral : national liberation as the basis of Africa's renaissances
  • Amilcar Cabral and the fortunes of African literature
  • Perspectives on Africanising educational curricula in Africa
  • Voices from the fringes : some reflections on postcolonial South African writings.