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Melancholia Africana - The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition (Paperback)
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Melancholia Africana - The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition (Paperback)
Series: Creolizing the Canon
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Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic
context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as
slavery, colonization, and the post-colony. From these experiences
a theme of loss resonates-loss of land, of freedom, of language, of
culture, of self, and of ideals born from independence. Nathalie
Etoke demonstrates that, beyond territorial expropriation and the
pain inflicted upon the body and the soul, the violence that seals
the encounter with the `other' annihilates an age-old cycle of
life. In the wake of this annihilation, continental and diasporic
Africans strive to reconcile that which has been destroyed with
what has been newly introduced. Their survival depends on their
capacity to negotiate the inherent tension of their historical
becoming. The book develops a transdisciplinary method encompassing
historicism, critical theory, Africana existential thought, and
poetics.
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