Melancholia Africana : The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition Hardback
by Nathalie, Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Cen Etoke
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Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.
From these experiences a theme of loss resonates—loss of land, of freedom, of language, of culture, of self, and of ideals born from independence.
Nathalie Etoke demonstrates that, beyond territorial expropriation and the pain inflicted upon the body and the soul, the violence that seals the encounter with the ‘other’ annihilates an age-old cycle of life.
In the wake of this annihilation, continental and diasporic Africans strive to reconcile that which has been destroyed with what has been newly introduced.
Their survival depends on their capacity to negotiate the inherent tension of their historical becoming.
The book develops a transdisciplinary method encompassing historicism, critical theory, Africana existential thought, and poetics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:20/06/2019
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- ISBN:9781786613028
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:20/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786613028
