{"product_id":"african-cultural-production-and-the-rhetoric-of-humanism-9781498587563","title":"African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.This collection brings together contributors from different fields who critically examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou  Part I: Foundational Visions  Chapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature  Adrien Mbar Pouille   Chapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the Darkness Thomas Spreelin MacDonald  Chapter Three: “Through the Eyes of Dogs”: Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel  Lifongo Vetinde  Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence  Chapter Four: “Remember the Children”: Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction  Marie-Thérèse Toyi   Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism  Hervé Tchumkam  Chapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon Jean-Blaise Samou  Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights  Chapter Seven: Ojukwu’s War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism  Uchenna David Uwakwe  Chapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present  Koni Benson  Chapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, the Book of Bones Mohamed Kamara  Chapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: “The Conspiracy” by Henri Lopes Janice Spleth","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040850968919,"sku":"9781498587563","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498587563.jpg?v=1750948055","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-cultural-production-and-the-rhetoric-of-humanism-9781498587563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}