Melancholia Africana The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Bill Hamlett is a translator, researcher, and teacher of French. He holds master’s degrees in French from Middlebury College and in Literary Theory from the École Normale Supérieure.
Melancholia Africana is a journey inward and outward, between memory and forgetting, facing the psychic horrors to the Africana soul by the chaos of globalization by default. Nathalie Etoke dialectically connects Goree Island and Chicago, Elmina and Birmingham, Duala and Fort-de-France. Diasporic solidarity requires creativity for/giving and re-membering. Etoke invokes a diverse chorus including Fanon, Du Bois, Nina Simone and John Coltrane.
- Sam O. Imbo, Professor of Philosophy, Hamline University,
Existential Francophone theorist Nathalie Etoke introduces us, through a fine approach not only to her history, but also to the story of an “Us.” Through her wounds/words, Etoke destabilizes the limits that have been imposed on that “Us.” How to overcome that initial catastrophe for which African descendants still pay? How to understand and take responsibility of the irreparable in order to create another world, another humanity? ... This book is solidly written, and it can be used for research that ranges from Africana existential thought and critical theory to literary theory. The book achieves, in short, one of the main goals of the series editors—Jane A. Gordon and Neil Roberts—to which this book belongs, Creolizing the Canon, namely, to blur and also transcend the borders of the seemingly impossible.
Black Issues in Philosophy, Blog of the APA
Series Editors’ Note
Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon
Translator’s Note
Author’s Introduction
Part I: Melancholia Africana: Scattered Fragments of Africa
1. Loss, Mourning, and Survival in Africa and the Diaspora
2. For a Diasporic Consciousness
3. At the end of daybreak… the strength to see tomorrow
4. Pain that Sings the Happiness to Come
Part II: How Does One Make Sense of Postcolonial Nonsense?
1. Scarlet Dawns of a Memory of Forgetting
2. From Death to Life in the Country of a Thousand Hills
3. From the Gaze of the Other to Self-Reflection
4. “On va faire comment ?”: Fact of Language, Civic Renunciation, or Theodicy of the Everyday in the Postcolony
5. Coda
Epilogue: An Interview with Nathalie Etoke conducted by LaRose T. Parris (2019)
This series, published in partnership with the Caribbean Philosophical Association, revisits canonical theorists in the humanities and social sciences through the lens of creolization. It offers fresh readings of familiar figures and presents the case for the study of formerly excluded ones.
Series Editors: Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Bill Hamlett is a translator, researcher, and teacher of French. He holds master’s degrees in French from Middlebury College and in Literary Theory from the École Normale Supérieure.