Epistemologies from the Global South: Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa

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Cheikh Thiam

Epistemologies from the Global South

Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa

Cheikh Thiam

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English

Routledge
07 June 2024

Regional studies; Colonialism & imperialism; Society & culture: general; Sociology; Regional geography

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.

By: Cheikh Thiam
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781032759951
ISBN 10: 103275995X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 07 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction 1 Negritude: The Africa-Centered Imperative 2 From Senghor’s Negritude to Glissant’s Relation and Back: Orality, Writing and the Critique of Colonial Reason 3 Africa Unveiled: Decolonising the Black Atlantic 4 Decolonising France: Senghor, Mabanckou and the Future of the Republic Conclusion: Beyond Coloniality Bibliography Index

Cheikh Thiam is professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College and the author and editor of several volumes on Negritude and African philosophy and literature.