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aesthetics
Africa
African Consciousness
African Creative Writers
African epistemology
African Literature
African writers
agency
authority
Ayi Kwei Armah
Bisexual Triangle
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change
Contemporary African Studies
continuity
cultural modernity Africa
culture
drama
epistemology
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fiction
gender
gender and sexuality studies
Girlfriend
Global Collective Consciousness
globalization
God's Bits
God’s Bits
Gordimer
Harald
history
Hold
House Gun
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
legitimacy
literary sociology
literature
Modern African Literature
modernity
Nadine Gordimer
ontology
poetry
postcolonial theory
power
power and authority analysis
Secular Spirituality
sexuality
social theorizing
social theory
social theory in African literature
social thought
Son's Crime
Son’s Crime
Spiritual Reading
Things Fall
Timeless
Trauma Theory
USA
Vice Versa
Weak Theology

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138295636
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent.

This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
About
Wale Adebanwi is Associate Professor in African American and African Studies at the University of California-Davis, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and another in social anthropology from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar. He is the author of Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency (2014).