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Book SynopsisRecognizing philosophy's traditional influence onand literature's creative stimulus forsociopolitical 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. Wher
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa
Aretha Phiri
Chapter One: Philosophy and an African Conscience
Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
Chapter Two: African Literature as a Handmaid of African Philosophy
Chielozona Eze
Chapter Three: Conflict and Compromise in Three Novels of the Eastern Cape
George Hull
Chapter Four: Blind Sisyphus: Two Perspectives on Mersault
Pedro Tabensky
Chapter Five: Digital Media, Literacies, Literature and the African Humanities
Pier Paolo Frassinelli and Lisa Treffry-Goatley
Chapter Six: African Gaze: Hollywood/Nollywood and the Postcolonial Science Fiction Imagery in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
Rocío Cobo-Piñero
Chapter Seven: Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World
Aretha Phiri
Chapter Eight: “The whims of the white masters:” Miriam Tlali’s Between Two Worlds and Totality of White Power
Marzia Milazzo
Index
About the Contributors
