Epistemologies from the global south : negritude, modernity and the idea of Africa /

This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghor's work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation o...

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Main Author: Thiam, Cheikh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Scottsville Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2024.
Series:Thinking Africa.
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Summary:This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghor's work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation of the West as subject of history. As opposed to this tradition, the book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
Physical Description:xv, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781032759951
103275995X
9781032760018
103276001X