Beschreibung:
Identity Re-creation in Global African Encounters explores race, racial politics, and racial transformation in the context of Africa’s encounters with non-African communities through various perspectives including oppression, racialization of ethnic difference, and identity deconstruction.
Identity Re-creation in Global African Encounters explores race, racial politics, and racial transformation in the context of Africa’s encounters with non-African communities through various perspectives including oppression, racialization of ethnic difference, and identity deconstruction. While the contributors recognize that ethnicity has long been a staple analytical category of engagements between African and non-African communities, they present a holistic view of the continent and its diaspora through race outside of both colonial and neocolonial binaries, allowing for a more nuanced study of Africa and its diaspora.
Chapter One: Race and Ethnicity: Irreducible Categories in Black People’s Encounters
Chapter Two: The Concept of Common Origin and the Question of Racism
Chapter Three: Apartheid and Beyond: An Exploration of South African Drama
Chapter Four: British Southern Cameroons’ Restoration of Statehood & Sovereignty Internal Affair or Decolonization Conflict?
Chapter Five: Eurocentrism, ‘African Art’ and the ‘Egypt’ Factor
Chapter Six: Aesthetics of Indigenous Faith Tourism in Africa and the Diaspora
Chapter Seven: Racialized Beauty: the Case of Skin Bleaching as an Identity Crisis for Non-Whites
Chapter Eight: Towards Utilizing the Social Media in Sustaining African Culture and Identity
Chapter Nine: Social Media Transcending Longstanding Stereotypes? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Belkacem Meghzouchene's Sophia in the White City as a Case in Point
Chapter Ten: Universal Adaptability of the Affective Essence of Ifa Lore in the Stage Presentation of Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to blame
Chapter Eleven: Colonialism and Home-grown Businesses in Africa
Chapter Twelve: Post-colonialism and the Emergent Political Culture in Africa: A Literary Study of Ngugi WaThiong’O's Fictional Work
Chapter Thirteen: The Body in Personal Identity Development
Chapter Fourteen: Sexual Predators or Preys: The White Male in Jude Dibia’s Novels
Chapter Fifteen: Human Trafficking in Ifeanyi Ajaegbo’s Sarah House
Chapter Sixteen: Representation of Human Trafficking in Ifeoma Chinwuba’s Merchants of Flesh
Chapter Seventeen: Cultural Crisis of Widowhood Inheritance and Maltreatment in African Society