Presence Africaine

Author : Abiola Irele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195334739

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought by Abiola Irele Pdf

From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe. The term "African thought" has been interpreted in the broadest sense to embrace all those forms of discourse - philosophy, political thought, religion, literature, important social movements - that contribute to the formulation of a distinctive vision of the world determined by or derived from the African experience. The Encyclopedia is a large-scale work of 350 entries covering major topics involved in the development of African Thought including historical figures and important social movements, producing a collection that is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent research, and a solid guide for further study.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0226545075

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The Surreptitious Speech by V. Y. Mudimbe Pdf

Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.

Author : O. R. Dathorne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816607693

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African Literature in the Twentieth Century by O. R. Dathorne Pdf

Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings

Author : Gary Wilder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226897684

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The French Imperial Nation-State by Gary Wilder Pdf

France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.

Author : Dorothy S. Blair
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521211956

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African Literature in French by Dorothy S. Blair Pdf

This 1976 book provides both a historical survey and a critical analysis of the literature in French from West and Equatorial Africa. Professor Blair begins by discussing the social, educational and political influences which led to the formation of the Negritude movement and to a flowering of French-African creative writing. This historical approach is then complemented by a study of the different literary genres. She traces the evolution of the first manifestations of literary activity in French by African writers, the written folk-tale, fable and short story, from the oral tradition of the indigenous culture, and the eventual appearance of the novel with a legendary or historical theme. The origins of French-African drama are considered for the first time, and the work of the minor poets analysed. Finally, Professor Blair attempts a definition of the French-African novel, and studies examples from three major periods from the 1930s onwards.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106006420209

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Presence Africaine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African literature (French)
ISBN : 0252069358

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Black Paris by Bennetta Jules-Rosette Pdf

Black Paris documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. Based on long-term ethnographic, archival, and historical research, the work is enriched by interviews with many writers of the new generation. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores African writing and identity in France from the early n gritude movement and the founding of the Pr sence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Examining the relationship between African writing and French anthropology as well as the emergence of new styles and discourses, Jules-Rosette covers French Pan-Africanism and the revolutionary writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses the new generation of African writers who appeared in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Kathleen Gyssels,Bénédicte Ledent
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9782296128033

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African presence in Europe and beyond by Kathleen Gyssels,Bénédicte Ledent Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013066639

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Présence Africaine by Anonim Pdf

Includes special issues.

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865436975

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African Cinema by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

This collection of essays deals directly and compellingly with contemporary issues in African cinema. In particular, they address key aspects of post-colonialism and feminism - the two major topics of interest in current criticism of African films - but coverage is also given to spectatorship, national identity, ethnography, patriarchy, and the creation of key film industries in developing countries.

Author : Ilo, Stan Chu
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339365

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Handbook of African Catholicism by Ilo, Stan Chu Pdf

"A disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism"--

Author : L. H. Gann,Peter Duignan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0521078598

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Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume 5, A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa by L. H. Gann,Peter Duignan Pdf

A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789462702554

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Mongameli Mabona by Ernst Wolff Pdf

The life and work of a remarkably versatile and pioneering South African thinker Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly forgotten figure today. British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born and, to a large extent, these powers carved out his destiny for him. Nevertheless, a curious set of coincidences enabled him to obtain a tertiary education as a priest, to pursue his doctoral studies in Italy and to befriend Alioune Diop. He is one of the first published philosophers of Anglophone Africa and holds doctorates in theology and anthropology. His opposition to institutionalized racism – an opposition which included his co-authoring the 1970 “Black Priests’ Manifesto” – eventually led to his exile. This book is the first study of any kind devoted to Mabona. It documents his life and offers a synoptic reading of his scholarly and poetic work.

Author : DR ALEXANDRA. REZA,Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures Alexandra Reza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198896319

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Anticolonial Form by DR ALEXANDRA. REZA,Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures Alexandra Reza Pdf

Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.

Author : Klaus Benesch,Geneviève Fabre
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9042008806

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African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds by Klaus Benesch,Geneviève Fabre Pdf

In the humanities, the term 'diaspora' recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars addresses these issues and helps to ground the ongoing debate about the African diaspora in a more solid theoretical framework. Part I is dedicated to a general discussion of the concept of African diaspora, its origins and historical development. Part II examines the complex cultural dimensions of African diasporas in relation to significant sites and figures, including the modes and modalities of creative expression from the perspective of both artists/writers and their audiences; finally, Part III focusses on the resources (collections and archives) and iconographies that are available today. As most authors argue, the African diaspora should not be seen merely as a historical phenomenon, but also as an idea or ideology and an object of representation. By exploring this new ground, the essays assembled here provide important new insights for scholars in American and African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African Studies. The collection is rounded off by an annotated listing of black autobiographies.