Remembering Africa

Name: Remembering Africa
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ISBN: 9780325070728

ISBN-10: 0325070725

ISBN-13: 9780325070728

Edition: 2002

Authors: Elisabet Mudimbe-Boyi

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The meeting of Africa and the West had a lasting impact on both worlds. Since the first encounter, travelers, missionaries, tourists, writers, traders, and explorers have recorded their experiences of the African continent. Conversely, Africans have been transplanted to the West, bringing with them recollections of their homeland. This collection of essays is concerned less with the representation of Africa than with the memory of the continent, focusing on how Africa is remembered through life experiences and various textual expressions functioning as sites of memory. Insightful essays introduce the legacies of cultural contact, and voices often blurred by traditional divisions between the…

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List price: $135.15
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 12/26/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.35" wide x 9.49" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Illustrations


Introduction




Writing Empire, Writing Territory



The Genealogy of French Africanism




The Western Anticolonialist of the Postcolonial Age: The Reformist Syndrome and the Memory of Decolonization in (Post-)Imperial French Thought




Stanley and Conrad: Founders of Alternative Discourses about Central Africa




Geography, Literature, and the African Territory: Some Observations on the Western Map and the Representation of Territory in the South African Literary Imagination




Visualizing Africa



Painting Algerian Society: Exoticism, Modernism, Identity




African Animals in the West: Can the Subaltern Growl?




The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Representation




Dance: The Passion to Be Oneself in Dialogue with Others




Unveiling Silence, Unveiling History



Remembering the Incomprehensible: Helene Cixous, Leila Sebbar, Yamina Benguigui, and the War of Algeria




Toward a Cross-Cultural Poetics of African Drumming: Recollection, Reconnection, and Imagination in French Caribbean Fiction




Lingua Franca: A Non-Memory




Derrida's Algerian Anamnesis; or Autobiography in the Language of the Other




Inscribing the Self in Cultural Narratives



"Immediate History": Remembering the Golden Age of Research in Political Science at the University of Kinshasa




Nubile (in) Morocco



Index


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