| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Anthony Mangeon. -- Introduction / by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle -- Universalism in questions / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On the universal and universalism / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Race, culture, identity / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Africanity, Afrocentrism and representation / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The racial prohibition of representation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On cultural and linguistic specificities / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On African languages and translation / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- An optimism of translation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On philosophy in Islam and on the question of a 'West African Islam' / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The political instrumentalization of a West African Sufi Islam / Jean-Loup Amselle -- West African Sufism Revisited / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Thinking/creating Africa / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- On the non-existence of Africa ... and of Europe / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On Africa and pan-Africanism / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne's 'desire for Africa' / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Were human rights born in Africa? / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On the charters of the Mande' / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- On various contemporary questions / Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle |
| Summary |
"This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines the relationship between politics, religion and identity in contemporary culture and the possibility of a new universalism. Erudite, wide-ranging and eminently readable, it will be of great interests to students, scholars, and general readers alike"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"First published in French as En quête de Afrique(s): universalisme et pensée de décoloniale, © Albin Michel, 2018"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 9, 2021) |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism -- Africa
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Postcolonialism -- Philosophy
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Decolonization -- Africa
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Cultural relations.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Cultural relations
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Decolonization
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International relations
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Postcolonialism
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Relations -- Western countries
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Western countries -- Relations -- Africa
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| Subject |
Africa
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Western countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Amselle, Jean-Loup, author.
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Mangeon, Anthony, writer of preface.
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Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.
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| LC no. |
2019029693 |
| ISBN |
150954030X |
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9781509540303 |
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