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Africa and its significant others :

forty years of intercultural entanglement /

Contributor: Hoving, Isabel.; Korsten, Frans-Willem.; Alphen, Ernst van.

Published: c2003.

Publisher: Rodopi., Amsterdam ;

When did the intimate dialogue between Africa, Europe, and the Americas begin? Looking back, it seems as if these three continents have always been each other’s significant others. Europe created its own modern identity by using Africa as a mirror,... more

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When did the intimate dialogue between Africa, Europe, and the Americas begin? Looking back, it seems as if these three continents have always been each other’s significant others. Europe created its own modern identity by using Africa as a mirror, but Africans traveled to Europe and America long before the European age of discovery, and African cultures can be said to lie at the root of European culture. This intertwining has become ever more visible: Nowadays Africa emerges as a highly visible presence in the Americas, and African American styles capture Europe’s youth, many of whom are of (North-) African descent. This entanglement, however, remains both productive and destructive. The continental economies are intertwined in ways disastrous for Africa, and African knowledge is all too often exported and translated for US and European scholarly aims, which increases the intercontinental knowledge gap. This volume proposes a fresh look at the vigorous and painful, but inescapable, relationships between these significant others. It does so as a gesture of gratitude and respect to one of the pioneering figures in this field. Dutch Africanist and literary scholar Mineke Schipper, who is taking her leave from her chair in Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. Where have the past four decades of African studies brought us? What is the present-day state of this intercontinental dialogue? Sixteen of Mineke’s colleagues and friends in Europe, Africa and the Americas look back and assess the relations and debates between Africa-Europe-America: Ann Adams, Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Liesbeth Bekers, Wilfried van Damme, Ariel Dorfman, Peter Geschiere, Kathleen Gyssels, Isabel Hoving, Frans-Willem Korsten, Babacar M’Baye, Harry Olufunwa, Ankie Peypers, Steven Shankman, Miriam Tlali, and Chantal Zabus write about the place of Africa in today’s African Diaspora, about what sisterhood between African and European women really means, about the drawbacks of an overly strong focus on culture in debates about Africa, about Europe’s reluctance to see Africa as other than its mirror or its playing field, about the images of Africans in seventeenth-century Dutch writing, about genital excision, the flaunting of the African female body and the new self-writing, about new ways to look at classic African novels, and about the invigorating, disturbing, political art of intercultural reading.

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Source:	Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
Contributor:	Hoving, Isabel.; Korsten, Frans-Willem.; Alphen, Ernst van.
Language:	English; French; Afrikaans
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
ISBN:	1-4175-6676-0; 94-012-0098-X
Other identifier:	DOI: 10.1163/9789401200981
Series:	Thamyris intersecting, ; no. 11
Subjects:	African literature; Intercultural communication; Intercultural communication; Intercultural communication; Intercultural communication in literature.; Cultural relations in literature.; African literature.; Cultural relations in literature.; Intercultural communication.; Intercultural communication in literature.; International relations.; Literature.
Scope:	1 online resource (208 pages)
Notes:	Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references and index. Array: Array

Source:	Union catalogues
Contributor:	Dido, E. K. M. (HerausgeberIn)
Language:	English; Afrikaans; Dutch
Media type:	Book
Format:	Print
ISBN:	9780620423625; 0620423625
Edition:	First edition
Scope:	[x], 300 pages, portraits (some color), 25 cm
Notes:	This volume is the result of collaboration between South African and Suriname writers. It includes photographs and biographical information of contributing writers

Source:	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Contributor:	Selms, Adrianus van; Selms, Adrianus van
Language:	Dutch; Afrikaans
Media type:	Book
Format:	Print
ISBN:	0720484502
Series:	Verhandelingen / Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde ; N.R., 101
Subjects:	Islam
Scope:	XVII, 259 S.
Notes:	Text niederländ. u. afrikaans

Source:	Union catalogues
Language:	Afrikaans
Media type:	Article (journal)
Format:	Print
Parent title:	In: Old Testament essays; Pretoria : Dep., 1983; 20(2007), 1, Seite 10-33
Subjects:	Archäologie; Hermeneutik; Umwelt; Forschungsbericht; Realien

Source:	Union catalogues
Language:	Afrikaans
Media type:	Article (journal)
Format:	Print
Parent title:	In: Old Testament essays; Pretoria : Dep., 1983; 19(2006), 3, Seite 912-925
Subjects:	Alttestamentliche Hermeneutik

Source:	Union catalogues
Language:	Afrikaans
Media type:	Article (journal)
Format:	Print
Parent title:	In: Scriptura <Stellenbosch>; [Stellenbosch] : Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 1980; 107(2011), Seite 238-249
Subjects:	Orakel; Offenbarung

Source:	Union catalogues
Language:	Afrikaans
Media type:	Article (journal)
Format:	Print
Parent title:	In: Scriptura <Stellenbosch>; [Stellenbosch] : Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 1980; 109(2012), Seite 36-52
Subjects:	Theodizee; Das Böse; Dualismus

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