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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities

Re-reading the Canon
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Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader context of renewed interest in and concerns around epistemological decolonization and to advance African scholarly transformation . This volume argues that, in their convergent ideological and imaginative attempts to articulate an African conditionality, African philosophy and literature share overlapping concerns and aspirations. In this way, this book engages and examines the intersectional canons of these disciplines in order to determine their intra-continental epistemological transformative possibilities within broader, global societal explorations of the current moment of decolonization. Where much of the scholarship on African philosophy has focused on addressing issues associated with the postcolonial task of African self-assertion in the face of or against Euro-modernist hegemony, this innovative book project shifts the focus and broadens the scope away from merely discoursing with the global North by mapping out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.

Author Biography:

Aretha Phiri is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in English (DLSE) at Rhodes University and was a research fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa (2017–2019).
Release date Australia
March 4th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Chielozona Eze
  • Contributions by George Hull
  • Contributions by Lisa Treffry-Goatley
  • Contributions by Marzia Milazzo
  • Contributions by Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
  • Contributions by Pedro Tabensky
  • Contributions by Pier Paolo Frassinelli
  • Contributions by Rocio Cobo-Pinero
  • Edited by Aretha Phiri
Pages
180
Dimensions
155x218x10
ISBN-13
9781498571265
Product ID
35631728

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