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Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African
culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European
modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to
present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism,
multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called
deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought - on
intellectual landmarks, revolutionary ideas, crises of
consciousness, literary and philosophical debates - this study
looks at African modernity and modernism from critical postcolonial
perspectives. An effort to sketch contemporary frameworks of global
intersubjective relations reflecting African cultures and concerns
must resist taking modernism as a term of African periodization, or
master-narrative, but as a constellation of discursive and
subjective forms that obtains upon the present moment in African
literature, philosophy, and cultural history. Africa after
Modernism argues for a philosophical consciousness and pan-African
multiculturalist ethos that operate, after the deconstruction of
Eurocentrism, beyond self/other paradigms of exoticism or
West/Africa political ideologies, in dialogue with postcolonial
approaches to cultural reciprocity.
Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African
culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European
modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to
present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism,
multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called
deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought ? on
intellectual landmarks, revolutionary ideas, crises of
consciousness, literary and philosophical debates ? this study
looks at African modernity and modernism from critical postcolonial
perspectives. An effort to sketch contemporary frameworks of global
intersubjective relations reflecting African cultures and concerns
must resist taking modernism as a term of African periodization, or
master-narrative, but as a constellation of discursive and
subjective forms that obtains upon the present moment in African
literature, philosophy, and cultural history. Africa after
Modernism argues for a philosophical consciousness and pan-African
multiculturalist ethos that operate, after the deconstruction of
Eurocentrism, beyond self/other paradigms of exoticism or
West/Africa political ideologies, in dialogue with postcolonial
approaches to cultural reciprocity.
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