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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838308803321

Autore

Farred Grant

Titolo

Africana Studies : Theoretical Futures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

, : Temple University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4399-2308-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Disciplina

305.896/07300711

Soggetti

African Americans - Study and teaching (Higher)

Black people - Study and teaching (Higher)

African diaspora - Study and teaching (Higher)

African Americans - Intellectual life

Black people - Intellectual life

African diaspora - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Theoretical Futures": The Creation of a Concept / Grant Farred -- 1. On the Fecundity of Small Places / John E. Drabinski -- 2. Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen-Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory / Zeyad el Nabolsy -- 3. The State of Crisis and the Crisis of the State in the Twenty-First Century / Radwa Saad -- 4. Insurgent Practices in Contemporary Francophone Africa: Emerging Critical Challenges / Kasereka Kavwahirehi -- 5. Tampered Witnessing: Visual Agency and the African American Poet / Gregory Pardlo -- 6. Subverting Colonial Aesthetics: Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Janelle Monáe / Sarah Then Bergh -- 7. Seductive Solidarity: Comrade Lover and Other Demons / Akin Adesọkan -- 8. Seeing, Hearing, Breathing, and Witnessing from the Africana Center at Cornell: An Afterword / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book showcases new and expansive possibilities for Africana studies scholarship by collecting works across disciplines that push the boundaries of the discipline into topics both broader and more specific



than traditionally approached: in philosophy, literature, music, political science, and more"--