Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act - African Culture and Decolonization

Foreword by Lanie MillarThis book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mario Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa's most important 20th century intellectuals. His writings think through the task of intellectual emancipation of colonized people, which he saw as predicated on the necessary project of political decolonization. As anti-colonial movements got underway, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within the designated communities, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples.Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of the revolutionary 20th century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation. In his ethical commitment to moving away from focusing solely on the relationship between the colonial occupier and the colonized, he instead promoted ideas and actions that would construct mutual understanding among decolonizing communities. Andrade's work offers models to rethink race and nation as analytic categories and is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mário Pinto de Andrade, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Mario Pinto De Andrade, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Mario Pinto De Millar Andrade, Lanie Millar
• Con la collaborazione di: Lanie Millar (Editore), Fabienne Moore (Editore), Lanie Millar (Prefazione), Moore Fabienne (Traduzione), Lanie Millar (Editore e traduzione)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.2024
• EAN: 9781509559343
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5934-3
• Pagine: 244
• Serie: Critical South
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Literaturwissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Afrika, Kulturwissenschaften, Literature, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Kolonialismus, Colonialism & imperialism, Postcolonial Theory, Theorie der Postkolonialzeit, African/African-American Studies, Afrika-/Afroamerika-Forschung, Kolonialismus u. Imperialismus, Postkolonialzeit