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Author: Alfred B. Zack-Williams Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351960431 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 173
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The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political background: from the 1960s, the decade of independence, through to its development outlook as the new millennium unfolds. It examines a broad range of contemporary issues -- from development and culture to linguistics and is unique in identifying and examining issues that are common both to Africa and the diaspora.
Author: Alfred B. Zack-Williams Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 135196044X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 155
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Drawing together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, this work is unique in considering the situation and status of Africans globally. It explores a broad range of contemporary issues - from development and culture to linguistics - within the socio-political framework of Africa in the 21st century.
Author: D. Pal S. Ahluwalia Publisher: ISBN: 9780415570701 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
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Out of Africa rethinks the relationship between post-structuralism and postcolonialism to deepen our understanding of the origins of social knowledge. It explores the intricate subjectivities, intellectual currents and cultural memories that social theorists carry within them. Out of Africa is no conventional paean to syncretism or hybridity. In it, the major French thinkers on colonialism emerge not merely as Europeans with an Algerian connection, but as creative minds crucially shaped by Maghreb and Africa. Ahluwalia defies the intellectual culture that has to disown the wider cultural and psychological repertoire beyond the reach of conventional political sociology of knowledge. This important and provocative book brings together two familiar themes, first, that the war for Algerian independence had a profound impact on French culture, and on French theory in particular, and second, that post-colonialism is basically a child of post-structuralism and post-modernism. In his powerful reconsideration of the first theme, Ahluwalia draws on Edward Said's insights to frame a reworking of the second, revealing that post-structuralism itself, with its figures of ambivalence, deconstruction, mimicry, irony, etc., can be seen as a post-colonial response to the complexity of the Franco-Maghrebian intersection that fails to properly acknowledge the colonial experience. This book could come to be regarded as the first draft of a new way of looking at postmodernism. To excavate a repressed colonial question,' tying together in philosophical kinship the likes of Althusser, Sartre, Cixous, Camus, Lyotard, Foucault, Fanon, Derrida, and Bourdieu, is to excavate more than postmodernism's roots, it is to reveal the centrality of colonialism to some of the most exciting trends within contemporary French philosophical thought. Through interesting vignettes of lives and travels, through theoretical argument and combative debate, Ahluwalia engages with those in-between spaces, opened up by dislocation and a connection to the Algerian `colonial question.' He demonstrates how this encounter profoundly marked the thoughts and words of these important thinkers and, in so doing, he has produced a work of scholarship that is as novel as it is exciting.
Author: Pal Ahluwalia Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134559054 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
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This groundbreaking book makes sense of the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial politics, illustrating how post-colonial theory has marginalised a huge part of its constituency, namely Africa. Politics and Post-Colonial Theory traces how African identity has been constituted and reconstituted by examining issues such as: * negritude * the rise of nationalism * decolonisation. The book also questions how helpful post-colonial analysis can be in understanding the complexities which define institutions including: * the nation-state * civil society * human rights * citizenship. Politics and Post-colonial Theory bravely breaks down disciplinary boundaries. Its radical vision will be essential reading for all those engaged in Politics, post-colonial studies and African studies.
Author: Epifanio San Juan Publisher: MacMillan ISBN: 9780333913772 Category : Developing countries Languages : en Pages : 325
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Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post colonialism, this work posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. It questions the various cliches that stereotype third world cultures.
Author: Kofi Agawu Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317794060 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 289
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The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, "What is African music?" Agawu offers a new and provocative look at the history of African music scholarship that will resonate with students of ethnomusicology and post-colonial studies. He offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, illuminates a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism. This book will undoubtedly inspire heated debate--and new thinking--among musicologists, cultural theorists, and post-colonial thinkers. Also includes 15 musical examples.
Author: Crawford Young Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres ISBN: 029929143X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 489
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"A highly readable, sweeping, and yet detailed analysis of the African state in all its failures and moments of hope. Crawford Young manages to touch upon all the important issues in the discipline and crucial developments in the recent history of the African continent. This book will be a classic."---Pierre Englebert, author of Africa Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow --
Author: NA NA Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349616575 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 332
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Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. The testimonies and signifying practices of Rigoberta Menchu, C.L.R. James, various "minority" writers in the United States, and intellectuals from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are counterposed against the dogmas of contingency, borderland nomadism, panethnicity, and the ideology of identity politics and transcultural postmodern pastiche. Reappropriating ideas from Gramsci, Bakhtin, Althusser, Freire, and others in the radical democratic tradition, San Juan deploys them to recover the memory of national liberation struggles (Fanon, Cabral, Che Guevara) on the face of the triumphal march of globalized capitalism.