African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

$66.35

African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

Name: African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback
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SKU: 9781498587587
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Book Overview

by Koni Benson (Contribution by), Mohamed Kamara (Contribution by), Thomas Spree MacDonald (Contribution by)

A 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 scholars from different disciplines who deftly 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 that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.

ISBN	9781498587587
Publisher	Lexington Books
Genre	Arts and Philosophy
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2023
Language	ENG- English
Pages	194
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print