Imagining Vernacular Histories (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola
Redaktion: Sotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa; Borah, Abikal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola's reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of "ritual archives," the contributors to this volume rethink the historical archive in search of vernacular histories. Simultaneously, they recognize the contributions from various other disciplines in pluralizing the term vernacular. The book brings together a wide range of topics, such as reflections on African historiography; the relationship between memory, history and literature; gender relations; and the construction of historical archives. While appropriating Falola's conception of vernacular histories, the contributors collectively argue that pluriversality and ritual archives can potentially rescue African historical and creative scholarship from the sustained practices of epistemicide. Simultaneously, Imagining Vernacular Histories focuses on the emerging interdisciplinary conversations on constructing the pluriverse as well as on the geopolitics of knowledge production. Through a critical appreciation of Falola's engagement with the ideas of postcoloniality, decolonizing epistemologies, and pluriversality, this book locates his scholarship in relation to postcolonial theory emerging from the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786614629
• Artikelnr.: 59895941

Autorenporträt

Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa is a Professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literature at Babcock University, Nigeria. Abikal Borah is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Abikal Borah and Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa
Toyin Falola and African Historiography: A Creative Praxis
Modern African Historiography: Toyin Falola and Others
Charles Thomas
African 'Historians, Are Archaeologists Your Siblings?': A Critical
Appreciation of Toyin Falola's Contribution to the Archaeology of Africa
and the African Diaspora
Benjamin Nutor
Rethinking Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in Africa
Damilola S. Osunlakin
Perspectives on Development in Africa: An Exploration of Toyin Falola's
Oeuvre
Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo
Memory and History
Twin Rivers of African Cultural Heritage: Reading Toyin Falola's A Mouth
Sweeter Than Salt
Aisha M. Umar and Francis Miracle Okemefuna
Multiple Interpretative Frames in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
Joshua Agbo
Yoruba Worldview and Proverbs in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
Daniel Ibrahim
Rethinking the Historical Archive
The Making of Toyin Falola: Cultural Orig