Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.
Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.
Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of L'Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and Melancholia Africana l'indispensable dépassement de la condition noire (2010), which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity and citizenship in contemporary France.
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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)
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)
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