A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism : Come Back Babar (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

Nyongesa, Andrew/ Mugubi, John

Routledge（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 166 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032772226
• DDC分類 809.045

Full Description

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism - Blackness, the narrative of Return, sanctity of the ancestral homeland, exposition of evils of colonialism and African Literature - with new postulations. These new suppositions deny race, accentuate onward migration and diminish the ancestral homeland to any ordinary city to globetrot. These voices liken any reminiscence of colonial evils to Afro-pessimism, pronounce African Literature dead on arrival and proceed to 'substitute' pan-Africanism through studies, which neglect pioneer and contemporary literary works, cultural productions, folklore, conversations on social media (blogs, Facebook, WhatsApp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black peoples themselves. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to determine the relevance and influence of pan-Africanism and the new paradigm.

Contents

Introduction

1 Relevance of primordial Identities: Pan-Africanism in the face of Globalisation

1.1 Background

1.2 Review of Related Literature

1.3 Review of diasporic and Global Literatures on Pan Africanism and Afropolitanism

1.4 Review of scholarship from Africa

1.5 Statement of the Problem

1.6 Objectives of the Study

1.7 Procedure and Methodology

1.8 Data Analysis and Interpretation

1.9 Pan-Africanist and Afropoliltanist readings of artifacts and cultural productions: Justification of the Study

1.10 Outline of Book Chapters

2 Come Back Babar: The Place of Pan-Africanism in Black Literatures

2.1 introduction

2.2 The Beauty of Mother Africa: postcolonial poetry, songs and attendant values

2.3 The Untold Stories: African Prose and the Reality of Racism

2.4 Life Writing and Blackness: Racism and African Culture in Selected Autobiographies

2.5 Black, Beauty and African Diaspora: Revitalisation of Black Values and Harlem Renaissance

2.6 Blackness and Folklore: Pan Africanist Voice in Selected Folklore and quotes

2.7 Influence of pan-Africanism from Surveys and Social Media: Discussion and Results

Conclusion

List of figures

References

3 Frivolity of Race: Afropolitanism and Validity of Class in Contemporary Literature and Folklore

3.1 introduction

3.2 "Black or White—One and Same": Michael Jackson and Afropolitanist Context

3.3 The Place of Race in Contemporary Africa: Views from Selected Social Media Posts

3.4 The Influence of Afropolitanism: Exegesis of Selected Blogs on Social Media Space

3.5 Race and Biracial Characters: Contest between Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Migration Literatures

3.6 Migration and Afropolitanism: Relevance of hybridity and Afropolitanism in Contemporary Migration Literatures

3.7 Influence of Afropolitanism from Surveys on Social Media: Discussion and Results

Conclusion

List of figures

References

4 Explicating Ideological Constructs Within Cinematic Critique Paradigm: A Nexus to Afropolitanism and Pan-African Perspectives

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Cinematic expressions, Societal Narratives and Ideological Constructs: An Afrpolitan and Pan- African Discourse

4.3 Cinematic Exegesis on Identity and Diasporic Narratives: An Analytical Discourse on "Judas the Black Messiah", "Sarafina", "Moonlight" and "Black Panther" with Afropolitan and Pan-African Context

4.4 Characterisation as a Prism for Exploring Afropolitanist Black Identities: The Confluence of Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism Modern Black Film Narratives

4.5 Cinamatic Resonances and Reverberations : Interweaving Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism through Visual and Auditory Narratives in Contemporary Film

4.6 Elucidating Racial Discourses wth Cinematic Narratives: A Critical Examination of Afropolitan and Pan-African Paradigms

Conclusion

References

5 Conclusions, Summaries and Research Findings

5.1 introduction

5.2 Limitations of the study

5.3 Is Pan-Africanism Relevant to Black people today? Summary of Findings in the Study

5.4 The Anti-Race Positionality: Summary of Findings on Afropolitanism

5.5 Suggested Areas for Further Research and Policy Implications

Index