Secrets, Silences and Betrayals

F. Ndi

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9789956762989
• eBook ISBN: 9789956762774
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The books principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounterssocial, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on Contributors
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - “Until lions write their own history”: Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals of the African and his history
• Chapter 2 - Behind the Scenes of Parent-Child Attachment Relationships
• Chapter 3 - Refuge or Fortress: Howalton Day School, the African-American Middle Class, and the Golden Era of Black Private Education
• Chapter 4 - Mustard Grows Followed by “Pokey and Me,” an interview with and by Eleanor Blount
• Chapter 5 - Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa, Negotiating Identity in a Trans-Atlantic World
• Chapter 6 - Traduttore, Traditore : Word-for-Word Translation as an Ideology Secretly Silencing Original Meanings
• Chapter 7 - Hidden Agendas: Colonial Eroticism in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians , Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter and Michelle Cliff’s Abeng
• Chapter 8 - Chaos, Concealment, and Duress in Human Relationships in the Mimboland of Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Married but Available
• Chapter 9 - Gardens of Blooming Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals: Emmanuel Fru Doh’s The Fire Within and Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money
• Index
• Back cover