{"product_id":"critical-dimensions-of-african-studies-re-membering-africa-9781666917239","title":"Critical Dimensions of African Studies:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together top researchers, thinkers, and activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa. Editors, Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walter, organize the book around three related key themes: international\/transnational, humanistic, and combined critical theory and practice perspectives. They argue that each theme represents an important dimension of contemporary African and African Diaspora Studies and re-centering these themes within the discipline will help to advance the field. The diverse contributors capture the goal and method for re-membering Africa by reflecting and defining the field from various disciplines in order to consider the history, the critical debates, and the challenges to current views of the status and future direction of African Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven an African continent that was dismembered by the violent histories of slavery, colonization, post-colonization and modern forms of economic dispossession, racial hatred and marginalization, and geo-political sabotage by the West, Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-membering Africa, undertakes the huge task of re-membering – putting back together – Africa as an indispensable center of interest in global politics, language, pedagogy and culture. This book’s theoretical approach of inter-disciplinarity not only gives it a competitive edge in both African Studies and African Diaspora Studies, it also paves the way for collaboration between the two disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Samuel Kamara, Minnesota State University, Mankato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Language and the International\/Transnational Lens \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Tom Spencer-Walters: Intellectual Freedom Fighter by Selase W. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Terms Matter: The Use of “Tribe” in African Studies by Jennifer L. De Maio and Daniel N. Posner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Speaking Africa: Re-Membering Africa through Language, Culture, and Aesthetics by Sheba Lo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: “Africa for the Africans” Garvey \u0026amp; African Transnationality: The Idea of Flexible Citizenship by W. Gabriel Selassie I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: “Back Home This Never Would Have Happened”: Imagining Tradition and Modernity Among Ugandan Pentecostals in Los Angeles by Kevin Zemlicka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Humanistic Approach \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Bumuntu Humanism and “Values Discourse”: Reflection on the Importance of African Studies in Our Tumultuous Time by Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: “Working the Past:” Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa by Raquel Kennon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: The Power of Memory and Language: Counter-Stories as Oppositional Remembering by Renee M. Moreno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Marché Sandaga: The Language of the Built Environment in Remembering and Re-Membering by Suzanne Scheld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Critical Theory and Practice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Africa’s Adult Literacy Landscape in The Age of Globalization: A Path to Increased Access and Change by Daphne W. Ntiri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Remembering Africa: Memory and The Narrative Imagination in the Polio Survivor’s Experience by Rodney B. Hume-Dawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Reconciling Traditional and Nontraditional Approach to Mental Health Services: African Diaspora Experience by Senait Admassu, Kofi Peprah, and Edwin Aimufua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword by Tom Spencer-Walters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042014560599,"sku":"9781666917239","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666917239.jpg?v=1750952630","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-dimensions-of-african-studies-re-membering-africa-9781666917239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}