The Surreptitious Speech
Title | The Surreptitious Speech PDF eBook |
Author | V. Y. Mudimbe |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1992-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226545073 |
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
Presence Africaine
Title | Presence Africaine PDF eBook |
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Pages | 746 |
Release | 1965 |
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Includes special issues.
Collection presence africaine
Title | Collection presence africaine PDF eBook |
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Release | 19?? |
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Présence Africaine
Title | Présence Africaine PDF eBook |
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Pages | 304 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Includes special issues.
Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà
Title | Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà PDF eBook |
Author | Bénédicte Ledent |
Publisher | Editions L'Harmattan |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 2296446256 |
Dans ce collectif bilingue, les représentations de l'Afrique et des Africains dans différentes expressions artistiques sont étudiées par des chercheurs travaillant dans des contextes (géographiques et linguistiques) différents. La diaspora africaine en particulier reçoit une attention renouvelée, axée sur des manifestations tant actuelles que plus anciennes, tant critiques que créatives.
African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds
Title | African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Benesch |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789042008809 |
In the humanities, the term 'diaspora' recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars addresses these issues and helps to ground the ongoing debate about the African diaspora in a more solid theoretical framework. Part I is dedicated to a general discussion of the concept of African diaspora, its origins and historical development. Part II examines the complex cultural dimensions of African diasporas in relation to significant sites and figures, including the modes and modalities of creative expression from the perspective of both artists/writers and their audiences; finally, Part III focusses on the resources (collections and archives) and iconographies that are available today. As most authors argue, the African diaspora should not be seen merely as a historical phenomenon, but also as an idea or ideology and an object of representation. By exploring this new ground, the essays assembled here provide important new insights for scholars in American and African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African Studies. The collection is rounded off by an annotated listing of black autobiographies.
The French Imperial Nation-State
Title | The French Imperial Nation-State PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Wilder |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2005-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226897680 |
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.