The Surreptitious Speech

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226545073
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Surreptitious Speech written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.

Author : Regina Hartmann
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3836626721
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural identity in the East African novel written by Regina Hartmann and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: As the Black African writers have taught us, we must dance our word, for in human speech as in dance, lies an offering; to speak and to write is also to offer oneself to the other; it is to be reborn together . This quotation by M. Rombaut locates African literature close to the performing arts. According to his statement African literature seems to transcend the conventional European conception of writing, which is conceiving literature as something planned and permanent. The idea of a literary performance in African writing places the author much closer to the story-teller, who is dependent on his audience and trying to keep in touch with them. By processing their feelings in his performance he gives expression to a common consciousness. In contrast to the Western author who often wants to stand apart from his society, African authors tend to aim their participation in the formation of a shared identity. This paper tries to find out how authors from the framework of East Africa conceive of cultural identity. Basically, I will proceed in two steps: part A is dedicated to the development of a pattern within which the complex issue of identity can be adequately discussed in an East African context. In Part B I will then apply this discussion scheme to three novels which as I will explain are representative for East African writing, in far as this term is justified. Part A starts off from some basic observations about identity, on the foundation of which I want to deduce the structure of my analysis. I will argue that identity is based on ones observation of the environment and on the influence of outsiders. All this is to some extent true for two concepts: individual and cultural identity. The latter develops when a group of individuals feels or is ascribed a common bond apt to correspond to several individual self-concepts. These individuals may then share a feeling of home, which can act as a physical but also mental commitment. Departing form these ideas I will show that four issues might be interesting in dealing with cultural identity, which can be expressed by some central questions: 1.Identity imposed and adopted: In how far can others influence our identity? 2.Identity rediscovered and reinvented:To what extent does our history work on identity? 3.Identity displaced: How does our feeling of physical or mental bond to a physical or mental space I will call home work on identity? 4.Identity integrated: How [...]

Author : Richard H. King
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880667
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970 written by Richard H. King and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2004-08-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To study this transition from universalism to cultural particularism, Richard King focuses on the arguments of major thinkers, movements, and traditions of thought, attempting to construct a map of the ideological positions that were staked out and an intellectual history of this transition.

Author : DR ALEXANDRA. REZA
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019889631X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticolonial Form written by DR ALEXANDRA. REZA and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.

Author : Félix F. Germain
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952636
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing the Republic written by Félix F. Germain and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how “black Parisians—in their daily labors, weekend celebrations, and periodic protests—opened the way to ‘decolonizing the Republic,’ advancing the respect for their rights as citizens.” Contrasted to earlier works focusing on the black intellectual elite, Decolonizing the Republic maps the formation of a working-class black France. Readers will better comprehend how those peoples of African descent who settled in France and fought to improve their socioeconomic conditions changed the French perception of Caribbean and African identity, laying the foundation for contemporary black activists to deploy a new politics of social inclusion across the demographics of race, class, gender, and nationality. This book complicates conventional understandings of decolonization, and in doing so opens a new and much-needed chapter in the history of the black Atlantic.

Author : Gemma K. Bird
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319979434
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought written by Gemma K. Bird and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the potential existence of shared foundational principles in the work of Immanuel Kant and a range of African political thought, as well as their suitability in facilitating just and fair cross-cultural dialogue. The book first establishes an analytical framework grounded in a Kantian approach to understanding shared human principles, suggesting that a drive to be self-law giving may underpin all human interactions regardless of cultural background. It then investigates this assumption by carrying out a theoretical analysis of texts and speeches from a variety of African scholarship, ranging from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis, divided into three distinctive chapters covers the Négritude movement, African socialism and post-colonial philosophers, including such thinkers as: Léopold Sédar Sengor, Julius K Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye. The author argues that underpinning each of their very different theoretical positions and arguments is a foundational argument for the importance of self-law giving. In doing so she highlights the need to respect this principle when embarking on cross-cultural dialogues. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of African political thought, political theory and international relations.

Author : S. Grovogui
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137083964
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy written by S. Grovogui and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates 'international knowledge' in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the 'non-West', the past, and the present of international society. It offers a view of the present in the form of a critique of Euro-centrism and occidentalist views of the postwar order.

Author : John Munro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316990648
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anticolonial Front written by John Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.

Author : Cedric Tolliver
Publisher : Class: Culture
ISBN 13 : 0472054058
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers written by Cedric Tolliver and published by Class: Culture. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora

Author : Winn Trivette II
Publisher : Winfield Trivette II
ISBN 13 : 1386166294
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 303 Vocabulary Words You Need written by Winn Trivette II and published by Winfield Trivette II. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 303 Vocabulary Words You Need is precisely what you're looking for: the best and quickest way to build a smart and powerful English vocabulary. Unfortunately, your boss, colleagues, and friends judge you by the words you use. Well, get 303 Vocabulary Words You Need to build sophisticated word power starting today! You learn 303 key words with clear explanations of meanings, usages, and related parts of speech as well as example sentences. Add sparkle to your existing vocabulary and feel more confident in daily situations at or away from the office. Test your understanding with the quizzes at the end of each unit. Use your new words without making embarrassing mistakes! Research indicates a smart and powerful is an effective means to increase your lifetime income! Build your wealth of words now! 303 Vocabulary Words You Need will not only impress your boss, colleagues, and friends, but lead you to greater personal and professional success. Get your copy today!