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  • Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism

    Desire as Power

    by Professor Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
    The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Dove, and Tracy K. Smith.Focusing specifically on the concept of desire as a liberatory idiom and as the highest expression of self ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on African Genocide

    Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence

    Edited by Alfred Frankowski, Jeanine Ntihirageza, Chielozona Eze ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities

    Re-reading the Canon

    by George Hull, Lisa Treffry-Goatley, Marzia Milazzo, Rocío Cobo-Piñero, Pedro Tabensky, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-readingthe Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Postcolonial Imaginations and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture

    by Chielozona Eze ...
    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 ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa

    by Chielozona Eze ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature

    Feminist Empathy

    by Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Philosophic Values and World Citizenship

    Locke to Obama and Beyond

    by Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Leonard Harris, Christopher J. Collins, Mac Mullan, Rose Cherubin, Robert Danisch, Chielozona Eze, Arnold L. Farr, A. Todd Franklin, Erin Kealey, Alain Locke, Greg Moses, Grant Silva, David Weinfeld ...
    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 ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination

    We, Too, Are Humans

    by Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series
    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 ... Read more

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    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political ... Read more

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  • The Leadership Imagination

    An Introduction to Taxonomic Leadership Analysis

    by Donald R. LaMagdeleine ...
    Series series New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
    The field of leadership studies needs theory and research techniques that balance conventional science with the arts and humanities in order to capture leadership's moral dimension. Borrowing from Aristotle's account of the three types of knowledge, the author argues that leadership is an in-between form that combines craft-based skill with theoretical knowledge adapted for a specific situation's ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and African Airwaves

    Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

    by Harri Englund ...
    Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and ... Read more

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