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Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy / by Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abebe Zegeye.
- Series:
- Routledge African studies ; 5.
- Routledge African studies ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabral, Amílcar, 1924-1973.
- Cabral, Amílcar.
- Postcolonialism--Africa.
- Postcolonialism.
- Education--Africa--History--20th century.
- Education.
- Education--Africa--History--21st century.
- African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- African literature.
- African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Africa--Civilization--20th century.
- Africa.
- Africa--Civilization--21st century.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Africa--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Close to the Sources; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One. Introduction: The Assault on African Cultures; Chapter Two. Notes on Theorising Black Diaspora in Africa; Chapter Three. On the Postcolony and the Vulgarisation of Political Criticism; Chapter Four. Rethinking the Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa; Chapter Five. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Chapter Six. Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa; Chapter Seven. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis of Africa's Renaissances
- Chapter Eight. Amilcar Cabral and the Fortunes of African LiteratureChapter Nine. Perspectives on Africanising Educational Curricula in Africa; Chapter Ten. Voices from the Fringes: Some Reflections on Postcolonial South African Writings; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- "First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso.
- "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-65988-9
- 1-283-10303-6
- 9786613103031
- 1-136-65989-7
- 0-203-80707-3
- 9780203807071
- OCLC:
- 721907177
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