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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an
interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs,
films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa.
Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements
in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative
justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory
democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent
society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars,
artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author
discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice,
social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It
discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses
such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by
disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and
forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African
literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature
and the environment. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an
interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs,
films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa.
Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa's robust achievements
in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative
justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory
democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent
society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars,
artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author
discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice,
social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It
discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses
such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by
disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and
forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African
literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature
and the environment. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in
the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The
African woman's body is often portrayed as having been disabled by
the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to
their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial
ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand
fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys
imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing
unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender,
Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy,
discussions open up about how this literature directly addresses
the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions. This book,
therefore, engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in
African literary and cultural discourses, highlighting the openness
to reality that is compatible with African multi-ethnic,
multi-racial, and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in
the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The
African woman's body is often portrayed as having been disabled by
the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to
their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial
ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand
fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys
imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing
unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender,
Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy,
discussions open up about how this literature directly addresses
the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions. This book,
therefore, engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in
African literary and cultural discourses, highlighting the openness
to reality that is compatible with African multi-ethnic,
multi-racial, and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.
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Philosophic Values and World Citizenship - Locke to Obama and Beyond (Hardcover, New)
Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Leonard Harris; Contributions by , Cherubin, Rose, , Collins, Christopher J., Danisch, …
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In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and
Beyond, Alain Locke the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance,
America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural
referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa is
placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural
figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection
compare and contrast Locke's views on values, tolerance,
cosmopolitanism, and American and world citizenship with
philosophers and leading cultural figures ranging from Aristotle,
Immanuel Kant, James Farmer, William James, John Dewey, Jose
Vasconcelos, Hans G. Gadamer, Fredrick Nietzsche, Horace Kallen,
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) to the cultural and political figure of
Barack Obama. This important collection of essays eruditely
presents Locke's views on moral, emotional, and aesthetic values;
the principle of tolerance in managing value conflict; and his
rhetorical style, which conveyed his views of cultural reciprocity
and tolerance in the service of the values of citizenship and
cosmopolitanism. For teachers and students of contemporary debates
in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations
define new and controversial terrain.
Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to
democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that
cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty.
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu left an enduring legacy of
forgiveness, openness, and solidarity in South Africa. This book
looks at how the country's historic transition to democracy has not
only changed the negative narrative about South Africa but also
provided a model for a new form of ethical participation in the
world. In addition to Mandela and Tutu, this book considers South
African cultural theorists, poets, and novelists such as J. M.
Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda, Njabulo Ndebele, and Antjie
Krog, all of whom have engaged with the struggle to overcome the
legacies of apartheid and create a more humane society. Most of
these figures share common cultural and moral traits with Mandela
and Tutu, the most outstanding of which is their belief in the
notion of global citizenship. In engaging the latter concept, this
work seeks to answer the following questions: How can we understand
being human in a world that is increasingly marked by hatred of
others? Can Mandela's vision of his society provide us with a
theory of how to live in our globalized world? This wide-ranging
volume will appeal to scholars and students of history, African
studies, literature, ethics, and international affairs. CHIELOZONA
EZE is Professor of African literature and cultural studies at
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Extraordinary Professor
of Englishat Stellenbosch University, and a fellow at Stellenbosch
Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa.
Recognizing philosophy's traditional influence on-and literature's
creative stimulus for-sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and
structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities:
Re-reading the Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the
cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African
literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within
the broader context of renewed interest in and concerns around
epistemological decolonization and to advance African scholarly
transformation . This volume argues that, in their convergent
ideological and imaginative attempts to articulate an African
conditionality, African philosophy and literature share overlapping
concerns and aspirations. In this way, this book engages and
examines the intersectional canons of these disciplines in order to
determine their intra-continental epistemological transformative
possibilities within broader, global societal explorations of the
current moment of decolonization. Where much of the scholarship on
African philosophy has focused on addressing issues associated with
the postcolonial task of African self-assertion in the face of or
against Euro-modernist hegemony, this innovative book project
shifts the focus and broadens the scope away from merely
discoursing with the global North by mapping out how philosophy and
literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within
and for Africa.
Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of
political violence. After all, every continent has had its
genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is
distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text
approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the
African diaspora to examine political and philosophical
after-effects of global colonialism. As genocidal state violence
has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe
and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in
colonized spaces largely within the African diaspora. This text
argues that such a difference needs to develop new concepts,
critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between
colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism that develops
the significance framing political violence as genocidal for the
development of a global understanding of genocide and genocidal
violence.
The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the
academia, is largely influenced by Africa s response to
colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to
considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for
social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite on the
contrary, it allows especially African political leaders to
luxuriate in the delusions of moral rectitude, imploring, at will,
the evil of imperialism as a buffer to their disregard of their
people. This book acknowledges the social and psychological
devastations of colonialism on the African world. It, however,
argues that the totality of African intellectual response to
colonialism and Western imperialism is equally, if not more,
damaging to the African world. In what ways does the average
African leader, indeed, the average African, judge and respond to
his world? How does he conceive of his responsibility towards his
community and society? The most obvious impact of African response
to colonialism is the implicit search for a pristine, innocent
paradigm in, for instance, literary, philosophical, social,
political and gender studies. This search has its own moral
implication in the sense that it makes the taking of responsibility
on individual and social level highly difficult. Focusing on the
moral impact of responses to colonialism in Africa and the African
Diaspora, this book analyzes the various manifestations of
delusions of moral innocence that has held the African leadership
from the onerous task of bearing responsibility for their
countries; it argues that one of the ways to recast the African
leaders responsibility towards Africa is to let go, on the one
hand, the gaze of the West, and on the other, of the search for the
innocent African experience and cultures. Relying on the insights
of thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony
Appiah, Achille Mbembe and Wolgang Welsch, this book suggests new
approaches to interpreting African experiences. It discusses select
African works of fiction as a paradigm for new interpretations of
African experiences.
Recognizing philosophy's traditional influence on-and literature's
creative stimulus for-sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and
structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities:
Re-reading the Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the
cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African
literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within
the broader context of renewed interest in and concerns around
epistemological decolonization and to advance African scholarly
transformation . This volume argues that, in their convergent
ideological and imaginative attempts to articulate an African
conditionality, African philosophy and literature share overlapping
concerns and aspirations. In this way, this book engages and
examines the intersectional canons of these disciplines in order to
determine their intra-continental epistemological transformative
possibilities within broader, global societal explorations of the
current moment of decolonization. Where much of the scholarship on
African philosophy has focused on addressing issues associated with
the postcolonial task of African self-assertion in the face of or
against Euro-modernist hegemony, this innovative book project
shifts the focus and broadens the scope away from merely
discoursing with the global North by mapping out how philosophy and
literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within
and for Africa.
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