1st Edition
Africa after Modernism Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy
By Michael Janis
Copyright 2008
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought – on... Read more
1. Africana Modernist Contexts: Exoticism, Pan-Africanism, Postcolonialism 2. Leiris in Africa: The Psychoanalysis of Exoticism 3. Signatures of Africa in Carpentier’s America 4. African Avant-Garde: Ouologuem’s Anti-Colonialist Anthropology 5. Postmodern Primitivism: Images of Africa in the Western Media 6. Africana Philosophy: Identity and Alienation. Afterword: The 'Second Sight' of Masks. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Michael Janis is Associate Professor of English at Morehouse College, where he teaches literary theory, West African fiction and film, and world literature.
