| Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition Contributor(s): Etoke, Nathalie (Author), Hamlett, Bill (Translator), Gordon, Lewis R. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1786613026 ISBN-13: 9781786613028 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2019020570 |
| Series: Creolizing the Canon |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Etoke, Nathalie: - Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of L'Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and Melancholia Africana l'indispensable dépassement de la condition noire (2010), which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity and citizenship in contemporary France.Gordon, Lewis: - Lewis Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, and Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa. His most recent book is What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015).Hamlett, Bill: - Bill Hamlett is a translator, researcher, and teacher of French. He holds masters degrees in French from Middlebury College and in Literary Theory from the École Normale Supérieure. |