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Imagining Vernacular Histories
Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola
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2020
Summary
Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola’s reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of “ritual archives,” the contributors to this volume rethink the historical archive in search of vernacular histories. Simultaneously, they recognize the contributions from various other disciplines in pluralizing the term vernacular. The book brings together a wide range of topics, such as reflections on African historiography; the relationship between memory, history and literature; gender relations; and the construction of historical archives. While appropriating Falola’s conception of vernacular histories, the contributors collectively argue that pluriversality and ritual archives can potentially rescue African historical and creative scholarship from the sustained practices of epistemicide. Simultaneously, Imagining Vernacular Histories focuses on the emerging interdisciplinary conversations on constructing the pluriverse as well as on the geopolitics of knowledge production. Through a critical appreciation of Falola’s engagement with the ideas of postcoloniality, decolonizing epistemologies, and pluriversality, this book locates his scholarship in relation to postcolonial theory emerging from the Global South.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-461-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-462-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
281
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
1 Modern African Historiography: Toyin Falola and the Others No access
2 African “Historians, Are Archaeologists Your Siblings?”: A Critical Appreciation of Toyin Falola’s Contribution to the Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora No access
3 Rethinking Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in Africa No access
4 Perspectives of Development in Africa: An Exploration of Toyin Falola’s Oeuvre No access
5 Twin Rivers of African Cultural Heritage: Reading Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt No access
6 Multiple Interpretative Frames in Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt No access
7 Yoruba Worldview and Proverbs in Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt No access
8 Cultural Origins of a Vernacular Historian No access
9 The Archivist as Muse: Toyin Falola’s Experimentation with Vernacular History in A Mouth Sweeter than Salt No access
10 Ritual Archives and Ancestral Memory of Nelson Mandela No access
11 Greatness in Praises: Selected Texts and Contexts of Toyin Falola No access
12 Politics of Polygyny in Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt No access
13 ‘Spare Husband’ Syndrome in West Africa No access
Bibliography No access Pages 251 - 272
Notes on the Contributors No access Pages 273 - 276
