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Epistemologies from the Global South
Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa
- 208 pages
- English
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About this book
This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghor's work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation of the West as subject of history. As opposed to this tradition, the book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm.
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Yes, you can access Epistemologies from the Global South by Cheikh Thiam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Scienze sociali & Storia africana. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Thinking Africa
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Hendo Reo
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Negritude: The Africa-Centred 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