Melancholia Africana - The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition

Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.

List of contents

Series Editors' Note
Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Part I: Melancholia Africana: Scattered Fragments of Africa
1. Loss, Mourning, and Survival in Africa and the Diaspora
2. For a Diasporic Consciousness
3. At the end of daybreak... the strength to see tomorrow
4. Pain that Sings the Happiness to Come
Part II: How Does One Make Sense of Postcolonial Nonsense?
1. Scarlet Dawns of a Memory of Forgetting
2. From Death to Life in the Country of a Thousand Hills
3. From the Gaze of the Other to Self-Reflection
4. "On va faire comment ?": Fact of Language, Civic Renunciation, or Theodicy of the Everyday in the Postcolony
5. Coda
Epilogue: An Interview with Nathalie Etoke conducted by LaRose T. Parris (2019)

About the author

Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of L'Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and Melancholia Africana l'indispensable dépassement de la condition noire (2010), which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity and citizenship in contemporary France.

Product details

• Authors: Nathalie Etoke
• Assisted by: Lewis R. Gordon (Foreword), Bill Hamlett (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786613028
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-302-8
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism