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Edward W. Blyden's intellectual transformations : Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African church / Harry N. K. Odamtten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Odamtten, Harry N. K., author.
- Series:
- Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
- Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912.
- Blyden, Edward Wilmot.
- Pan-Africanism.
- Black nationalism.
- Intellectuals--Liberia--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Intellectuals--Africa, West--Biography.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Free Black people--United States Virgin Islands--Saint Thomas--Biography.
- Free Black people.
- Multilingual persons--Biography.
- Multilingual persons.
- Africa, West--Religion--19th century.
- Africa, West.
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands)--Biography.
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands).
- Liberia--Biography.
- Liberia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden's various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden's contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.
- Contents:
- Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) : Afropublican commons
- Representations of the father of Pan-Africanism
- The Afro-positivist foundations of Pan-Africanism : plantation intellectuals and Africa's Atlantic scholars
- Edward Blyden's ethnoscapes: Igbo, Afro-Danish, and Jewish
- Edward Wilmot Blyden and the "Africanization of Islam" in West Africa
- Dr. Edward Blyden, they know your name : Blyden and West African Ethiopianism
- Epilogue
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-365-9
- 1-60917-599-9
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