Melancholia Africana : the indispensable overcoming of the Black condition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Etoké, Nathalie (Author)
Other Authors:	Hamlett, Bill (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	Translated from the French.
Published:	London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2019]
Series:	Creolizing the canon.
Subjects:	African diaspora. Blacks > Foreign countries > Social conditions. Blacks > Race identity. Postcolonialism. Africans > Foreign countries > Social conditions. Africa > Emigration and immigration.

Table of Contents:

Melancholia Africana: scattered fragments of Africa
Loss, mourning, and survival in Africa and the diaspora
For a diasporic consciousness
At the end of daybreak . . . the strength to see tomorrow
Pain that sings the happiness to come
How does one make sense of postcolonial nonsense?
Scarlet dawns of a memory of forgetting
From death to life in the country of a thousand hills
From the gaze of the other to self-reflection
"On va faire comment?": fact of language, civic renunciation, or theodicy of the everyday in the postcolony
Coda
Epilogue: Interview with Nathalie Etoke on Melancholia Africana: the indispensable overcoming of the black condition / conducted by LaRose T. Parris.