1st Edition
Between the Lines Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
Prolegomenon (Introduction) 1. Discourses of Africa in the West 2. The Dakar-Brazzaville-Stanford Conversation (DBSC) 3. Connections Outside Africa: The Black Americas 4. Empathic Intersubjectivity in Pan-Africanist Fictional Narrativity: Jean Toomer’s Cane, Erna Brodber’s Myal, and Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising – or, Metaphoric Roots of Philosophy and Literary Theory 5. Rethinking the Future of ‘Black’ Literary Theory: Preliminary Observations
Biography
A. Lassissi Odjo taught English, Postcolonial Literature, African and Afrodiasporic Literatures and Cultures, and French in West Africa, the United States, and Canada for twenty years.
