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The Black Mind - A History of African Literature (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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The Black Mind - A History of African Literature (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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The Black Mind was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. The comprehensive
account of the development of African literature from its
beginnings in oral tradition to its contemporary expression in the
writings of Africans in various African and European languages
provides insight, both broad and deep, into the Black intellect.
Professor Dathorne examines the literature of Africans as spoken or
written in their local languages and in Latin, French, Portuguese,
and English. This extensive survey and interpretation gives the
reader a remarkable pathway to an understanding of the Black
imagination and its relevance to thought and creativity throughout
the world. The author himself lived in Africa for ten years, and
his view in not that of an outsider, since it is as a Black man
that he speaks about Black people. Throughout the book, a major
theme is the demonstration that, despite slavery and colonialism,
Africans remained very close to their own cultures. Professor
Dathorne shows that African writers may be, like some Afro-American
writers, "marginal men," but that they are Black men and it is as
Black men that they feel the nostalgia of their past and the
corrosive influences of their present. The chapters are divided
into sections: Tradition; Heritage; The Presence of Europe; and
Crosscurrents. In the final chapters the author extends the thread
of continuity to the New World-Africa as present in the work of
Black writers in the United States and in the Caribbean.
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