Africa After Modernism - Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Michael Janis is Assistant Professor of English at Morehouse College, where he teaches literary theory, West African fiction, world literature, and writing. Klappentext Traces the shifts in perspectives on African culture! arts! and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to the identitarian positions in the climate of globalism! multiculturalism! and mass media. This book looks at African modernity and modernism from postcolonial perspectives. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary approach to literature, media, and philosophy, Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on Africanist thought from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to perspectives on cultural identity in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Michael Janis, Michael (Morehouse College Janis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2007
• EAN: 9780415957236
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95723-6
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, African History, Literary studies: postcolonial literature