The Afrocentric Idea

✍ Scribed by Molefi Kete Asante

Publisher: Temple University Press
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 postmodern 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.

✦ 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 Freedom
Africa as Concept
Part 3: The Liberation
The Search for an Afrocentric Method
Transcendence: The Curved Line
Notes
Index

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