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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities
Re-reading the Canon
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2020
Summary
Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-readingthe Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader context of renewed interest in and concerns around epistemological decolonization and to advance African scholarly transformation . This volume argues that, in their convergent ideological and imaginative attempts to articulate an African conditionality, African philosophy and literature share overlapping concerns and aspirations. In this way, this book engages and examines the intersectional canons of these disciplines in order to determine their intra-continental epistemological transformative possibilities within broader, global societal explorations of the current moment of decolonization. Where much of the scholarship on African philosophy has focused on addressing issues associated with the postcolonial task of African self-assertion in the face of or against Euro-modernist hegemony, this innovative book project shifts the focus and broadens the scope away from merely discoursing with the global North by mapping out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7124-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7125-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
160
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Philosophy and an African Conscience No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 African Literature as a Handmaid of African Philosophy No access Pages 17 - 32
Chapter 3 Conflict and Compromise in Three Novels of the Eastern Cape No access Pages 33 - 58
Chapter 4 Blind Sisyphus No access Pages 59 - 74
Chapter 5 Digital Media, Literacies, Literature, and the African Humanities No access Pages 75 - 92
Chapter 6 African Gaze No access Pages 93 - 112
Chapter 7 Transgressing Borders No access Pages 113 - 130
Chapter 8 “The Whims of the White Masters” No access Pages 131 - 148
