Falola African Memoirs and Cultural Representations

Narrating Traditions
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83998-775-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Anthem Advances in African Cultural Studies

Oral traditions and creative oratures have been celebrated in African studies over the years, specifically from the 1950s, as the most important and viable correspondence, aside from material artifacts, between social “archeologists” attempting to penetrate the African preliterate past and the social-political and economic productions of that same past. In the memoirs chosen for this book, oral traditions are braided with personal experiences in the formation of the self, providing the basis of some African literary outputs and championed as having the ability to engineer the African knowledge system in global academe. In this regard, this work stressesthe concept that most memoir writing scholars feel that the production and presentation of the autobiographical self aredependent on the categories of individualism and relationality. The memoirists depict their own identities in their tales as not simply a part of their society but also one strongly impacted by prominent persons in their many lived settings. The bookdiscusses an approach that enables West African memoirists to review their cultural backgrounds in the light of living in other spaces and acquiring different experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Mirror Effect: Narrating the Self through, Traditions and Cultures; Chapter Two The Universal and the Particular in African Memoirs; Chapter Three The Portraiture of Womanhood in Emmanuel, Babatunde’s An African Journey through Celibate, Priesthood to Married Life; Chapter Four Politics, Philosophical Representation, and Culture in Cherno Njie’s Sweat Is Invisible in the Rain; Chapter Five The Yoruba Worldview, Meanings, and Ideals of Life in Michael Afolayan’s Fate of Our Mothers; Chapter Six The Indelibility of Igbo Tradition (Home) in Kalu Ogbaa’s Carrying my Father’s Torch; Chapter Seven Experiences, Reflections, and Refractions on the Cusp in A. B. Assensoh’s A Matter of Sharing; Chapter Eight Toward a Spatial and Identity Synthesis: Regional Peculiarities in African Memoirs; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Toyin Falola is an author and editor of over one hundred and fifty books on Africa and the African Diaspora, and widely proclaimed as Africa’s preeminent scholar and one of the major intellectuals of our time. A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received sixteen honorary doctorates.