Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics and academy / / Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456533103321
• Autore: Zegeye Abebe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-10303-6; 9786613103031; 1-136-65989-7; 0-203-80707-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Collana: Routledge African studies ; ; 5
• Altri autori (Persone): VambeMaurice Taonezvi
• Disciplina: 960.3/2
• Soggetti: Postcolonialism - Africa; Education - Africa - History - 20th century; Education - Africa - History - 21st century; African literature - 20th century - History and criticism; African literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Electronic books.; Africa Civilization 20th century; Africa Civilization 21st century; Africa Politics and government 1960-; Africa Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso.; "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Close to the Sources; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One. Introduction: The Assault on African Cultures; Chapter Two. Notes on Theorising Black Diaspora in Africa; Chapter Three. On the Postcolony and the Vulgarisation of Political Criticism; Chapter Four. Rethinking the Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa; Chapter Five. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Chapter Six. Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa; Chapter Seven. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis of ; Africa's Renaissances; Chapter Eight. Amilcar Cabral and the Fortunes of African LiteratureChapter Nine. Perspectives on Africanising Educational Curricula in Africa; Chapter Ten. Voices from the Fringes: Some Reflections on Postcolonial South African Writings; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Africa's 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