Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies

ISBN-13: 9781316511237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 414 str.

Austin) Falola Toyin (University of Texas

Opis

Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

Recenzje

'Falola mines extensive personal archives to provide an alternative to Western-derived hegemonic research methodologies from an individual perspective that incorporates autoethnography and its reflections on the self and the larger shared community … Recommended.' E. P. Renne, Choice

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction; 1. Prologue: My Archive; 2. Autoethnography and Epistemic Liberation; Part II. Fictions and Factions; 3. Narrative Politics and Cultural Ideologies; 4. Memory, Magic, Myth, and Metaphor; 5. A Poetological Narration of the Nation; 6. A Poetological Narration of the Self; 7. Satire and Society; 8. Narrative Politics and the Politics of Narrative; Part III. Visual Cultures; 9. Sculpture as Archive; 10. Textiles as Texts; 11. Canvas and Archiving Ethnic Reality; 12. Hair Art and the Women Agency; 13. Photography and Ethnography' Part IV. Conclusion; 14. Self, Collective, and Collection.