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



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Autore: Zegeye Abebe Visualizza persona
Titolo: Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy / / by Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
Disciplina: 960.3/2
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Africa Civilization 20th century
Africa Civilization 21st century
Africa Politics and government 1960-
Africa Intellectual life
Altri autori: VambeMaurice Taonezvi  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Close to the sources  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-65988-9
1-283-10303-6
9786613103031
1-136-65989-7
0-203-80707-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807398603321
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Serie: Routledge African studies ; ; 5.