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Aretha Phiri - African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities

Re-reading the Canon

Av Aretha Phiri

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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-readingthe 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.
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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).

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Born from reflection on upheavals in South African universities, from 2015 to 2017, over tuition hikes and an excessively colonial curriculum, this volume opens and closes by looking at what it means to do philosophy with and on behalf of an African conscience. Both contributed by Phiri (literary studies in English, Rhodes Univ., SA), these two pieces critique nationalisms that presume the meaning of “African” while leaving room for one, like Steve Biko’s, that resonates with diasporic black struggles. Intervening essays connect the idea of “Afropolitanism” to global crises confronting women rather than to the international experiences of African elites, and expand Ngugi ? wa Thiongo’s reasons for promoting indigenous languages in light of digital media and online publishing. Contributors mine Nigerian, South African, and Algerian novels for their insights into intergenerational communication, authentic versus merely instrumental compromise, and the existential meaning of oppression rather than (exclusively) anticolonial content. One particularly interesting essay addresses the interplay between filmic and literary representations of alternate African futures in Nigerian science fiction. A good introduction to recent thinking about the intersecting functions of African literature and philosophy in the academy and in popular culture (including children’s literature), this collection could be a valuable resource for courses on world literature or philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

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