The African difference : discourses on Africanity and the relativity of cultures /

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Author / Creator:Owomoyela, Oyekan.
Imprint:Johannesburg : Witswatersrand University Press ; New York : P. Lang, c1996.
Description:236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in African and Afro-American culture, 0890-4847 ; vol. 10
Studies in African and African-American culture ; vol. 10.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2554705
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ISBN:1868142957 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820428817 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Language, Identity and Social Construction in African Literatures
  • Ch. 2. Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy: a Skeptical Consideration
  • Ch. 3. African Philosophy: the Conditions of its Possibility
  • Ch. 4. Socialist Realism or African Realism? A Choice of Ancestors
  • Ch. 5. African Cultures, Technology, and the New World Order: Lessons from the Gulf
  • Ch. 6. Gender in Traditional African Consciousness
  • Ch. 7. Gender in Traditional Africa: Confronting the Myths and Mystifications
  • Ch. 8. African Studies Epistemology and Methodology: A Critique
  • Ch. 9. Ashtabula! America in African Imagination and Literatures.