African Pasts

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107651344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa since 1940 written by Frederick Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Past written by Basil Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130793
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African pasts written by Tim Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa’s colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa’s contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to ‘work through’ their different traumatic colonial pasts. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction to the trauma of colonialism and ‘imprisonment narratives’. African pasts covers a wide range of African literatures and a cross-section of genres – fiction, poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory – and embraces such well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe Beyala.

Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982135
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Voices of the Global Past written by Trevor R. Getz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.

Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876570
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Author : Touria Khannous
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739170422
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Pasts, Presents, and Futures written by Touria Khannous and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.

Author : Leslie Witz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053345
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsettled History written by Leslie Witz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing look at how history has been produced, contested, and unsettled in South Africa from Mandela's release to 2010.

Author : Mamadou Diawara
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456528
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Memory in Africa written by Mamadou Diawara and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast amount of literature--both scholarly and popular--now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to 'remember with the future in mind'. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives--and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.

Author : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104662
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology, Language, and the African Past written by R. Blench and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa

Author : David Anderson
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0852557612
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Urban Past written by David Anderson and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers first delivered at the conference on Africa's Urban Past, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.