Nathalie Etoke

Melancholia Africana (eBook, ePUB)

The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition
Übersetzer: Hamlett, Bill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony. From these experiences a theme of loss resonates-loss of land, of freedom, of language, of culture, of self, and of ideals born from independence. Nathalie Etoke demonstrates that, beyond territorial expropriation and the pain inflicted upon the body and the soul, the violence that seals the encounter with the 'other' annihilates an age-old cycle of life. In the wake of this annihilation, continental and diasporic Africans strive to reconcile that which has been destroyed with what has been newly introduced. Their survival depends on their capacity to negotiate the inherent tension of their historical becoming. The book develops a transdisciplinary method encompassing historicism, critical theory, Africana existential thought, and poetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786613035
• Artikelnr.: 56955366

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Etoke is associate professor of French and Africana studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her book Melancholia Africana received the Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she made a documentary entitled Afro Diasporic French Identities thatexamines how the legacy of slavery and colonization challenges the republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Note
Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Part I: Melancholia Africana: Scattered Fragments of Africa
1. Loss, Mourning, and Survival in Africa and the Diaspora
2. For a Diasporic Consciousness
3. At the end of daybreak. the strength to see tomorrow
4. Pain that Sings the Happiness to Come
Part II: How Does One Make Sense of Postcolonial Nonsense?
1. Scarlet Dawns of a Memory of Forgetting
2. From Death to Life in the Country of a Thousand Hills
3. From the Gaze of the Other to Self-Reflection
4. "On va faire comment ?": Fact of Language, Civic Renunciation, or
Theodicy of the Everyday in the Postcolony
5. Coda
Epilogue: An Interview with Nathalie Etoke conducted by LaRose T. Parris
(2019)