Melancholia Africana

Author : Nathalie Etoke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786613034
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholia Africana written by Nathalie Etoke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony. From these experiences a theme of loss resonates—loss of land, of freedom, of language, of culture, of self, and of ideals born from independence. Nathalie Etoke demonstrates that, beyond territorial expropriation and the pain inflicted upon the body and the soul, the violence that seals the encounter with the ‘other’ annihilates an age-old cycle of life. In the wake of this annihilation, continental and diasporic Africans strive to reconcile that which has been destroyed with what has been newly introduced. Their survival depends on their capacity to negotiate the inherent tension of their historical becoming. The book develops a transdisciplinary method encompassing historicism, critical theory, Africana existential thought, and poetics.

Author : I. Augustus Durham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027657
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stay Black and Die written by I. Augustus Durham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Using psychoanalysis to develop a theory of racial melancholy while “playing” with affect theory to investigate racial aesthetics, Durham theorizes the role of the feminine, especially the black maternal, in the production of black masculinist genius.

Author : Nathalie Etoke
Publisher : Quilombola
ISBN 13 : 9780857428530
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Black written by Nathalie Etoke and published by Quilombola. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis R. Gordon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135034379X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge written by Lewis R. Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of human sciences, aesthetics, and decolonization. Gordon's expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness, activist thinkers, sexuality, Fanon, Jimi Hendrix, Black Jewish struggles, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and Ubuntu philosophy. Edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey, two decolonial thinkers from South Africa and India, this reader shifts attention away from colonial centres of power, encouraging global dialogue across students, scholars, and activists. Featuring a foreword by the celebrated novelist and postcolonial thinker, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this reader includes a mixture of research articles, short critical essays, reflections, interviews, poems, and photographs in the creative pursuit of liberation.

Author : Monica Michlin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178138553X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Intersectionalities written by Monica Michlin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important collection which explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought.

Author : Emily S. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786605384
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race as Phenomena written by Emily S. Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives. Phenomenology is best known as a descriptive endeavor to more accurately describe our experience of the world. These essays examine the ways in which this relation between phenomenology and race acts as a site of racial meaning. Philosophy of race conceives race as a social construction. Because of the sedimentation of racial meaning into the very structure and practices of society, the socially constructed meanings about features of the body are mistaken as natural. Hence although racial meaning is theoretically recognized as socially constructed, during an every-day interaction, racial meaning is mistaken as inevitable and natural. Ideal for advanced students in phenomenology and philosophy of race, this volume pushes the phenomenological method forward by exploring its relation to questions within philosophy of race.

Author : Nathan Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031374428
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies written by Nathan Andrews and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the long history of decolonization as a ‘third world’ political project, decolonization as an intellectual project has gained tremendous momentum in recent times, signalled by movements such as #RhodesMustFall, #BlackInTheIvory, and Why Is My Curricula So White among others. These movements situate the coloniality of power within ongoing practices in academia and seek to disrupt systemic racism and oppressive structures of knowledge production and dissemination. Assembling critical perspectives of scholars engaged in African Studies and other cognate disciplines on the continent and in the diaspora, the book elucidates and fuses ideas together to produce nuanced pedagogical advances in the service of students, academics, and educators. It contributes ideas on how to navigate systems, curricula, and academic contexts that have perpetuated a colonial toxicity that undermines Black agency and epistemic justice. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, educational leaders and policy makers across diverse disciplines interested in championing a decolonial praxis in academic spaces and universities.

Author : Layla Zami
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839455251
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary PerforMemory written by Layla Zami and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas such as the Shoah and the Maafa to reimagine how the past is remembered and how the future is anticipated. The new idea of perforMemory arises within a lively blend of interdisciplinary theory, interviews, performance analysis, and personal storytelling. Scholar and artist Layla Zami traces unexpected pathways, inviting the reader to move gracefully across disciplines, geographies, and histories. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.

Author : Achille Mbembe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509551085
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Write the Africa World written by Achille Mbembe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent. This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century. To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.

Author : Lauren Du Graf
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300242662
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yale French Studies, Number 135-136 written by Lauren Du Graf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on existentialism, this issue explores current writers, thinkers, and texts affiliated with the movement In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on the philosophical, literary, and stylistic movement. This special issue restores the writers, thinkers, and texts of the movement to their subversive strength. In so doing, it illustrates existentialism's present relevance, revealing how the concerns of the past urgently bristle into our own times.