Temple University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-1-56639-595-3 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0562-3 | Cloth: 978-1-56639-594-6 Library of Congress Classification P94.5.A37A78 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 909.0496
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This new edition of The Afrocentric Idea boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. By rendering a critique of some post-modern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations discussed in the first edition, this new edition contains lively engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante has cast The Afrocentric Idea in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. This is a fresh and dynamic location of culture within the context of social change.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of African American Studies at Temple University, and author of several books, including African Intellectual Heritage (with Abu S. Abarry, Temple) and The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.
REVIEWS
"Asante's wide range of references, his delightful examples taken from black traditions, and his sheer pleasure at discussing black culture, all combine to make his argument both cogent and important. This will be a major book."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair, Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities.
"Commencing with a spirited criticism of traditional Western academic discourse, Asante's drama concludes with a discussion of a transformative African and African-American discourse that puts its participants in possession of the dynamic spirits of a distinctive African cultural experience."
--Chronicle of Higher Education
"Mr. Asante is widely regarded as a major proponent of 'Afrocentricity,' or the understanding of the black experience as an extension of African history and culture. ... He is credited with doing as much as anyone to build a theoretical base for an idea that has been around for some time."
--Quarterly Journal of Speech
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dancing between Circles and Lines
Part 1 The Situation
Rhetorical Condition as a Conceptual Field
The Idea of a Metatheory
African Foundations of Nommo
Part 2 The Resistance
African American Orature and Context
Mythoforms in African American Communication
Rhetoric of Resistance
Choosing a Freedom
Africa as Concept
Part 3 The Liberation
The Search for an Afrocentric Method
Transcendence: The Curved Line
Notes
Index
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Temple University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-1-56639-595-3 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0562-3 Cloth: 978-1-56639-594-6
This new edition of The Afrocentric Idea boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. By rendering a critique of some post-modern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations discussed in the first edition, this new edition contains lively engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante has cast The Afrocentric Idea in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. This is a fresh and dynamic location of culture within the context of social change.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of African American Studies at Temple University, and author of several books, including African Intellectual Heritage (with Abu S. Abarry, Temple) and The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.
REVIEWS
"Asante's wide range of references, his delightful examples taken from black traditions, and his sheer pleasure at discussing black culture, all combine to make his argument both cogent and important. This will be a major book."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair, Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities.
"Commencing with a spirited criticism of traditional Western academic discourse, Asante's drama concludes with a discussion of a transformative African and African-American discourse that puts its participants in possession of the dynamic spirits of a distinctive African cultural experience."
--Chronicle of Higher Education
"Mr. Asante is widely regarded as a major proponent of 'Afrocentricity,' or the understanding of the black experience as an extension of African history and culture. ... He is credited with doing as much as anyone to build a theoretical base for an idea that has been around for some time."
--Quarterly Journal of Speech
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dancing between Circles and Lines
Part 1 The Situation
Rhetorical Condition as a Conceptual Field
The Idea of a Metatheory
African Foundations of Nommo
Part 2 The Resistance
African American Orature and Context
Mythoforms in African American Communication
Rhetoric of Resistance
Choosing a Freedom
Africa as Concept
Part 3 The Liberation
The Search for an Afrocentric Method
Transcendence: The Curved Line
Notes
Index
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