Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394328
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
Heroic Africans
Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394328
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394328
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
Heroic imperialists in Africa
Author: Berny Sèbe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’. This book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories of Livingstone, Gordon and Kitchener from a radically new angle, and throwing light on their French counterparts, often less famous in the Anglophone world but certainly equally fascinating.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’. This book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories of Livingstone, Gordon and Kitchener from a radically new angle, and throwing light on their French counterparts, often less famous in the Anglophone world but certainly equally fascinating.
Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic
Author: Mariam Konaté Deme
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136932658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional specificity of African epics and highlighting distinguishing features, such as the significance of the fantastic and its use in the epic dramatic structure.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136932658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional specificity of African epics and highlighting distinguishing features, such as the significance of the fantastic and its use in the epic dramatic structure.
Hero with an African Face
Author: Clyde W. Ford
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613216999
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on extensive research and his own wide travels, Ford vividly retells ancient African myths and tales and brings to light their universal meanings.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613216999
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on extensive research and his own wide travels, Ford vividly retells ancient African myths and tales and brings to light their universal meanings.
Honour in African History
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521546850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521546850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
We Have Been Believers
Author: James H. Evans
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9780800626723
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In this, the first full-scale black systematic theology in twenty years, James Evans emerges as a major and distinctive voice in American theology.Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, Evans situates theology squarely in the nexus of faith with freedom. There, with a sure touch, he uplifts revelatory aspects of black religious experience that reanimate classical areas of theology, and he creates a theology with a heart, a soul and a voice that speaks directly to our condition.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9780800626723
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In this, the first full-scale black systematic theology in twenty years, James Evans emerges as a major and distinctive voice in American theology.Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, Evans situates theology squarely in the nexus of faith with freedom. There, with a sure touch, he uplifts revelatory aspects of black religious experience that reanimate classical areas of theology, and he creates a theology with a heart, a soul and a voice that speaks directly to our condition.
Uneven Lies
Author: Pete McDaniel
Publisher: American Golfer
ISBN: 9781888531374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A fast-moving heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where blacks first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to people of color, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game. And much, much more.
Publisher: American Golfer
ISBN: 9781888531374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A fast-moving heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where blacks first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to people of color, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game. And much, much more.
Priya Ramrakha
Author: Shravan Vidyarthi
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868288742
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The work of Priya Ramrakha, pioneer among African photojournalists, and one of the first to be employed by Time/LIFE
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868288742
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The work of Priya Ramrakha, pioneer among African photojournalists, and one of the first to be employed by Time/LIFE
From Trickster to Badman
Author: John W. Roberts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.
Souls Grown Deep
Author: William Arnett
Publisher: Tinwood Books
ISBN: 9780965376631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision.
Publisher: Tinwood Books
ISBN: 9780965376631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision.