ISBN:
9781498587563
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 185 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als African cultural production and the rhetoric of humanism
DDC:
144.096
Keywords:
Humanism
;
Humanism in literature
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Humanismus
;
Literatur
Abstract:
Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa /Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou --Part I: Foundational Visions --Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature /Adrien Mbar Pouille --Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness /Thomas Spreelin MacDonald --"Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel /Lifongo Vetinde --Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence --"Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction /Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism /Hervé Tchumkam --Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon /Jean-Blaise Samou --Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights --Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism /Uchenna David Uwakwe --Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present /Koni Benson --Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones /Mohamed Kamara --An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes /Janice Spleth.
Abstract:
"This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists' exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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