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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd : How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds /
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Richard Fardon
- 1. A preview
- 2. Dominant and dormant epistemologies of Africa
- 3. Tutuola and the extravagant illusion of completeness
- 4. Keeping alive popular ideas of reality
- 5. The palm-wine drinkard and the challenge of dichotomies
- 6. Activation, potency and efficacy in Tutuola's universe
- 7. Tutuola in conversation with the Cameroon grassfields and beyond
- 8. Conclusion : Tutuola's legacy.