Epistemologies From the Global South - Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa

This book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1 Negritude: The Africa-Centered Imperative
2 From Senghor's Negritude to Glissant's Relation and Back: Orality, Writing and the Critique of Colonial Reason
3 Africa Unveiled: Decolonising the Black Atlantic
4 Decolonising France: Senghor, Mabanckou and the Future of the Republic
Conclusion: Beyond Coloniality
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Cheikh Thiam is professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College and the author and editor of several volumes on Negritude and African philosophy and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Cheikh Thiam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032760018
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276001-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Africa, Society & culture: general, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Regional Geography, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Global South / Developing countries, Negritude;Senghor;Mabanckou;Coloniality;French Colonialism