Africana Studies : Theoretical Futures / edited by Grant Farred.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farred, Grant, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).

African Americans.

Black people--Study and teaching (Higher).

Black people.

African diaspora--Study and teaching (Higher).

African diaspora.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This book showcases new and expansive possibilities for Africana studies scholarship by collecting works across disciplines that push the boundaries of the discipline into topics both broader and more specific than traditionally approached: in philosophy, literature, music, political science, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Theoretical Futures": The Creation of a Concept / Grant Farred

1. On the Fecundity of Small Places / John E. Drabinski

2. Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen-Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory / Zeyad el Nabolsy

3. The State of Crisis and the Crisis of the State in the Twenty-First Century / Radwa Saad

4. Insurgent Practices in Contemporary Francophone Africa: Emerging Critical Challenges / Kasereka Kavwahirehi

5. Tampered Witnessing: Visual Agency and the African American Poet / Gregory Pardlo

6. Subverting Colonial Aesthetics: Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Janelle Monáe / Sarah Then Bergh

7. Seductive Solidarity: Comrade Lover and Other Demons / Akin Adesọkan

8. Seeing, Hearing, Breathing, and Witnessing from the Africana Center at Cornell: An Afterword / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439923085

1439923086