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  title info:
    title: African cultural production and the rhetoric of humanism
  name:
    name part: Vetinde, Lifongo J.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Samou, Jean-Blaise
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists' exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life"--
  table of contents: Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa / Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou -- Part I: Foundational Visions -- Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature / Adrien Mbar Pouille -- Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness / Thomas Spreelin MacDonald -- "Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel / Lifongo Vetinde -- Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence -- "Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction / Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism / Hervé Tchumkam -- Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon / Jean-Blaise Samou -- Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights -- Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism / Uchenna David Uwakwe -- Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present / Koni Benson -- Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones / Mohamed Kamara -- An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes / Janice Spleth.
  note: edited by Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Humanism
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Humanism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Humanism
  subject:
    topic: Humanism in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  classification: B821 .A46 2020
  classification: 144.096
  related item:
    title info:
      title: African cultural production and the rhetoric of humanism
    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019042935
  identifier: 9781498587563
  identifier: 1498587569
  identifier: 9781498587570
  identifier: 2019042934
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 190920
    record change date: 20200220123820.0
    record identifier: in00004164156
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng