Imagining Vernacular Histories (eBook, PDF)

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

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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: 9798881860615
• Artikelnr.: 74399116

Autorenporträt

Edited by Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa and Abikal Borah

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: African Historiography, Vernacular Epistemology, and the
Making of the Historical Archive - Mobolanle Sotunsa and Abikal Borah
Part I: Critiques of Postcolonial African Historiography
1. Modern African Historiography: Toyin Falola and the Others - Charles
Thomas, The University of Texas at Austin.
2. In Defence of the Pluriverse: A Critical Appreciation of Toyin Falola's
Scholarship - Abikal Borah, The University of Texas at Austin.
3. African 'Historians, Are Archaeologists Your Siblings?': Evaluating Toyin
Falola's Contribution to the Archaeology of Africa and the African
Diaspora, Benjamin Nutor, The University of Texas at Austin.
4. "Ritual Archives" and OERs: Digital Humanities, Pedagogy, and African
Studies, Danielle Sanchez, Muhlenberg College.
Part II: Gender, Sexuality, and African Historiography
5. Toyin Falola and the Pathologies and Pathways for African Feminist
Scholarship - Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Babcock University.
6. Beyond the Proscription of History and the Futility of 'Feminist Talk':
Merging the Scholarship of Narrative Politics and Cinematic Frames in
Gendered Escavations of the African Past - Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca
College.
7. Africa and African Women in Conversation - Nemeta Blyden, The George
Washington University.
8. The Politics of Polygyny and Subjectivity in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter
than Salt - Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Babcock University.
9. Toyin Falola's Scholarship on African Women and Gender: Conceptualizations
at the Intersection of African and Feminist Epistemologies - Bridget Teboh,
The University of Massachusetts.
10. Dynamics of Female Gender Survival Strategies in Contemporary African
Novels - Eziwanyi Adam, Babcock University.
Part III: Vernacular Epistemologies and the African Archive
11. The Archivist as Muse: Toyin Falola's Experimentation with History in a
Mouth Sweeter than Salt - Ademola Dasylva, University of Ibadan
12. The Ancestral Memory and Invisible World of Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela -
Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi, University of South Africa.
13. Twin Rivers of African Cultural Heritage: Reading Falola's A Mouth Sweeter
than Salt - Aisha M Umar and Francis Miracle, Federal University, Nigeria.
14. An Analysis of Narrative Language Use in Toyin Falola's Memoir, A Mouth
Sweeter than Salt - Joshua Agbo, Anglia Ruskin University.
15. 'Women are the Salt of the Earth': A Folkoric and Feminist Re-Reading of A
Mouth Sweeter than Salt - Bridget Anthonia Yakubu, National Open University
of Nigeria.
16. History of Development in Africa: An Exploration into the Works of Toyin
Falola - Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Educor Hodings Johannesburg Area, South
Africa