A South African looks at the African diaspora : essays and interviews / Ntongela Masilela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masilela, Ntongela, author.

Series:

Intellectual history of southern Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.

Africans.

Africans--Foreign countries--Intellectual life.

African diaspora--Civilization--African influences.

Pan-Africanism.

Civilization.

Foreign countries.

Intellectual life.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 478 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trenton : Africa World Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: An intellectual itinerary

New Negroism and new Africanism: the influence of United States modernity on the construction of South African modernity (1999)

Nairobi, the capital of African political exiles in the 1960s (1996)

Africa and Latin America : why the absence of an intellectual connection? (2006)

The historical moment of the Africanness of Aime Cesaire (2008)

The cultural space of African Brazilians : a tribute on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (1988)

A South African perspective on Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanism (2009)

The responses of African diasporan and African intellectuals to the historical challenges posed by the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 (2011)

The historical importance of C. L. R. James (1901-1989) (1989)

The legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) : from Aime Cesaire to Steve Biko (1988)

The continuing relevance of Frantz Fanon in the postmodern era of globalization (2011)

Pan-Africanism or classical African Marxism? (1988)

The Los Angeles School of Black filmmakers (1991)

The Los Angeles School (2001)

The literary theory and literary criticism of Houston A. Baker (1986)

The passion of literary theory in contemporary Black America : an African perspective (1988)

The very beautiful Africanness in James Baldwin : in memoriam (1987)

Sterling A. Brown, the last of the Harlem renaissance greats : in memoriam (1989)

Ralph Bunche's engagement with South Africa in the 1930s (2004)

A conversation about jazz as a cultural process and historical transmission between an African and an African American : Ntongela Masilela interviews Stanley Crouch (1999)

African polyrhythms in modern dance : an interview with Garth Fagan (1991/1995)

The Black Atlantic and African modernity in South Africa (1996)

The incomparable postmodernist dancing feet of Michael Jackson (1987).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781592219216

1592219217

9781592219995

1592219993

OCLC:

905801978