Literary and sociopolitical writings of the Black diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Kersuze Simeon-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simeon-Jones, Kersuze, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black nationalism--Philosophy.

Black nationalism.

Pan-Africanism--Philosophy.

Pan-Africanism.

Black nationalism--History.

Pan-Africanism--History.

History.

African diaspora in literature.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, [2010]

Summary:

Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the writings of key political figures. It comparatively and dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism, Garveyism, Indig nisme, New Negro Renaissance, N gritude, and Afrocriollo. To study the key ideologies that emerged as collective black thought within the Diaspora, particular attention is given to the philosophies of Black Nationalism, Black Internationalism, and Universal Humanism. Each leader and writer helped establish new dimensions to evolving movements; thus, the text discerns the temporal, spatial, and conceptual development of each literary and sociopolitical movement. To probe the comparative and transnational trajectories of the movements while concurrently examining the geopolitical distinctions, the text focuses on leaders who psychologically, culturally, and/or physically traveled throughout Africa, the Americas, and Europe, and whose ideas were disseminated and influenced a number of contemporaries and successors. Such approach dismantles geographic, language, and generation barriers, for a comprehensive analysis. Indeed, it was through the works transmitted from one generation to the next that leaders learned the lessons of history, particularly the lessons of organizational strategies, which are indispensable to sustained and successful liberation movements.

Contents:

Interpreting the concepts of Black nationalism, Black internationalism, Pan-Africanism and universal humanism within the diaspora

Toussaint Louverture: the educational and sociopolitical legacy of a leader

Edward Blyden, Martin Delany: perspectives on education and religion

The voices of the foremothers: race, gender, and survival

Two personalities, one God, one aim, one destiny: W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and the new Negro renaissance

Jean Price-Mars: Indigénisme and the formulae of social transformation

Aimé Césaire: Négritude and the lessons of decolonization

Nicolás Guillén and the Afrocriollo movement: the valorization of African heritage in Hispanic culture

The principles of self-governance and Black power in the writings of Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739122532

0739122533

9780739147641

0739147641

OCLC:

526097891