African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498587585 ISBN 13: 9781498587587

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.



This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lifongo Vetindeis professor of French and francophone studies at Lawrence University.

Jean-Blaise Samou is assistant professor of francophone and intercultural studies at Saint Mary's University.

Mohamed Kamara is professor of French and Africana studies and chair of the Romance Languages Department at Washington and Lee University.

Hervé Tchumkam is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Southern Methodist University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498587585
• ISBN 13: 9781498587587
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
• Herausgeber: Vetinde Lifongo J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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