African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-04-05
Mått154 x 223 x 12 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor194
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498587587

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Konsthistoria inom Kultur
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Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary AfricaLifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise SamouPart I: Foundational VisionsChapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature Adrien Mbar PouilleChapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the DarknessThomas Spreelin MacDonaldChapter Three: “Through the Eyes of Dogs”: Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel Lifongo VetindePart II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial ViolenceChapter Four: “Remember the Children”: Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction Marie-Thérèse Toyi Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism Hervé TchumkamChapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in CameroonJean-Blaise SamouPart III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human RightsChapter Seven: Ojukwu’s War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism Uchenna David UwakweChapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present Koni BensonChapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, the Book of BonesMohamed KamaraChapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: “The Conspiracy” by Henri LopesJanice Spleth

Despite the existence of entrenched humanistic values throughout African philosophical, moral, and religious beliefs and epistemologies, Humanism is too often conceived of, both historically and contemporarily, as a strictly European movement and cultural product. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is a much needed counter balance to that persistent inaccuracy, providing convincing examples from across national, disciplinary, and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays reveals that a universal concept of Humanism is not possible without input from Africa’s diverse voices and practices, especially when European Humanism played such an unfortunate, prominent role in the African colonial era.