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Close to the Sources

- Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

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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 Africäs 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 Africäs lived experiences.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415895958
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 182
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. marts 2011
  • Størrelse:
  • 237x159x20 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 386 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 10. december 2024

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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 Africäs 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 Africäs lived experiences.

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