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Images of Africa : stereotypes & realities
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- Creator
- edited by Daniel M. Mengara ; preface by Molefi Kete Asante ; contributors, Martin Bernal ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780865439061, 0865439060, 9780865439078, 0865439079
- OCLC
- ocm45080123
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- European images of Africa: tales of two names: Ethiop and N--- / Martin Bernal -- Menelaos, the cyclopes, and Eurybates: a post-colonial reading of Homer / Miriam Dow -- European images of Africa from early times to eighteenth century / Buluda Itandala -- Strategic amnesia: versions of Vasco da Gama on the Kenya Coast / Janet S. McIntosh -- Literature of empire and the African environment / Mahamadou Diallo -- From crusades to colonies: Africa in French literature / Kristof Haavik -- The north African motif in early American fiction / Mongi Bahloul -- Mediterranean waterways extended borders and colonial mappings: French images of North Africa / Jonathan Gosnell -- Transposing the political & the aesthetical: Eugene Fromentin's contributions to Oriental stereotypes / Valerie Orlando -- In brightest Africa: naturalistic constructions of Africa in the American museum of natural history, 1910-1936 / Jeannette Eileen Jones -- From race to class: the African American literary response to the Italo-Ethiopian War / John Gruesser -- The herero into the hartz: Pynchon's re-presentation of race relations in Gravity's rainbow / Victoria Ramirez -- In the heart of sickness: a life portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer / Jessica Levin -- Scarred for life? Representations of Africa and female genital cutting on American television news magazines / Martha Grise -- US centered Afrocentric imagination of Africa: L.H.Clegg's When black men ruled the world, and Eddie Murphy's Coming to America / Jean Muteba Rahier -- Perceptions of African feminism: a socio-historic perspective / Daniel M. Mengara -- African women: educational opportunities and the dynamics of change / Bill Gaudelli -- Once up on a time: representations, misrepresentations and rehabilitations in African literatures / Augustine Okereke -- Oxford, Black Oxford: Dambudzo Marechera and the last colony in Africa / David Pattison -- Playing Africa: fictions of Ferdinand Oyono / Sharmill Sen