Africa and its significant others : : forty years of intercultural entanglement / / editors, Isabel Hoving, Frans-Willem Korsten, Ernst van Alphen.
When did the intimate dialogue between Africa, Europe, and the Americas begin? Looking back, it seems as if these three continents have always been each other’s significant others. Europe created its own modern identity by using Africa as a mirror, but Africans traveled to Europe and America long be...
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| Superior document: | Thamyris intersecting, no. 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi. c2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English French Afrikaans |
| Series: | Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Isabel Hoving , Frans-Willem Korsten and Ernst van Alphen
- Introduction: Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement / Isabel Hoving
- “Nom de Dieu, quelle race!”: The Saying, the Said, and the Betrayal of Charity in Mongo Beti’s Le pauvre Christ de Bomba / Steven Shankman
- Earning a Life: Women and Work in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta / Harry Olufunwa
- Painful Entanglements: The International Debate on Female Genital Excision in African and African-American Literature / Elizabeth Bekers
- Acquiring Body: Waris Dirie, Infibulation, and New African Female Self-Writing / Chantal Zabus
- Christopher Columbus has Words from the Other Side of Death For Captain John Whyte: Who Rebaptized Saddam International Airport as his Troops Rolled Into it / Ariel Dorfman
- The Return of Culture: Anthropology’s Temptations / Peter Geschiere
- Western Philosophy and the Study of Aesthetics in African Cultures / Wilfried van Damme
- Making History (In-)Cohere: An African and Africanism in Joost van den Vondel’s Palamedes (1625) / Frans-Willem Korsten
- Africa as Textual Play / Ernst van Alphen
- The Three Witches / Ankie Peypers and Miriam Tlali
- Miriam Tlali. For Mineke Schipper / Ankie Peypers and Miriam Tlali
- To: Mineke Schipper on her retirement / Miriam Tlali
- Literary Pan-Africanism / Anne Adams
- The Representation of Africa in Black Atlantic Studies of Race and Literature / Babacar M’Baye
- Tristes Tropiques et “racial healing”: Ellen Ombre et Caryl Phillips rentrent an pays / Kathleen Gyssels
- Meanwhile: Literature in an Expanded Field / Mieke Bal
- The Contributors / Isabel Hoving , Frans-Willem Korsten and Ernst van Alphen
- Index / Isabel Hoving , Frans-Willem Korsten and Ernst van Alphen.