Africana Studies : Theoretical Futures

• Autore: Farred Grant
• Pubblicazione: , : Temple University Press, , 2022; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.896/07300711
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Africana Studies
• ISBN: 1-4399-2308-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838308803321
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