Close to the Sources : Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy Hardback
by Abebe (University of South Australia) Zegeye, Maurice Vambe
Part of the Routledge African Studies series
Hardback
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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 taken, and arguing for a selective appropriation of theory that emerges from Africa’s lived experiences.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780415895958
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/03/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415895958
