Title Africa after modernism : transitions in literature, media, and philosophy / Michael Janis

Published New York : Routledge, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) Series Routledge studies in cultural history ; 6 Routledge studies in cultural history ; 6. Contents Preface -- 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 Summary Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought - on intellectual landmarks, revolutionary ideas, crises of consciousness, literary and philosophical debates - this study looks at African modernity and modernism from critical postcolonial perspectives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-253) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Africa Modernism (Literature) -- Africa Postmodernism -- Africa Postcolonialism -- Africa National characteristics, African. African literature -- History and criticism Philosophy, African. HISTORY -- Africa -- General. African literature Intellectual life Mass media Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) National characteristics, African Philosophy, African Postcolonialism Postmodernism Moderne Literatur Afrikabild Massenmedien Philosophie Postkolonialismus SUBJECT Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Africa -- Intellectual life -- 21st century Africa -- In mass media. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001715 Subject Africa Afrika Westliche Welt Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135201449 1135201447 9780203942284 0203942280 9781135201517 113520151X 9781135201586 1135201587

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