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Author:   Nathalie Etoke, Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Cen ,  Bill Hamlett, Translator and French Teacher, Kent School, Connecticut ,  Lewis R. Gordon
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9781786613028

ISBN 10:   1786613026
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Series Editors’ Note Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon Translator’s Note Author’s Introduction Part I: Melancholia Africana: Scattered Fragments of Africa 1. Loss, Mourning, and Survival in Africa and the Diaspora 2. For a Diasporic Consciousness 3. At the end of daybreak… the strength to see tomorrow 4. Pain that Sings the Happiness to Come Part II: How Does One Make Sense of Postcolonial Nonsense? 1. Scarlet Dawns of a Memory of Forgetting 2. From Death to Life in the Country of a Thousand Hills 3. From the Gaze of the Other to Self-Reflection 4. “On va faire comment ?”: Fact of Language, Civic Renunciation, or Theodicy of the Everyday in the Postcolony 5. Coda Epilogue: An Interview with Nathalie Etoke conducted by LaRose T. Parris (2019)

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Melancholia Africana is a journey inward and outward, between memory and forgetting, facing the psychic horrors to the Africana soul by the chaos of globalization by default. Nathalie Etoke dialectically connects Goree Island and Chicago, Elmina and Birmingham, Duala and Fort-de-France. Diasporic solidarity requires creativity for/giving and re-membering. Etoke invokes a diverse chorus including Fanon, Du Bois, Nina Simone and John Coltrane. -- Sam O. Imbo, Professor of Philosophy, Hamline University

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Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Bill Hamlett is a translator, researcher, and teacher of French. He holds master’s degrees in French from Middlebury College and in Literary Theory from the École Normale Supérieure.

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