Overview
- Offers Afrocentric perspectives on the aesthetics of political art and creativity
- Collects new insights into African, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean art, music, literature, and other creative outputs
- Appeals to scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies, art, literature, and performance
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Reviews
“At the heart of this book is the notion of art as goal-directed and emancipatory, belonging both to the individual creator and to the creator’s community. These essays are Afrocentric and powerfully grounded in engagement scholarship, particularly in theirdescription and analysis of the ways in which African art globalizes its humanistic value without losing its local essence as a material site of social and political expression.” (Malami Buba, Professor, Division of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, South Korea)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, as well as Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
Editors: Abimbola Adelakun, Toyin Falola
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91309-4Published: 09 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08220-8Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91310-0Published: 26 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 335
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: African History, World History, Global and Transnational History, African Culture, African Politics, African Literature