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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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Colección: | Routledge African studies ;
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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.