...Richard Roberts Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Richard Roberts The Construction of Cultures in Diaspora: African and African New World Experiences In the early 1980s, historians of Africa began to question the naturalness of the tribe as the unit of political organization...

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...) and the Middle East (al-Mashraq al-Arabi), including the new Arab political and cultural formulations. Moreover, through the Arabic letter, North African artists, as all other Arab artists, found a solution to the modernist paradigm that demanded a severance with history and tradition. The Arabic letter served...

...Christopher L. Miller Christopher L. Miller Ethnicity and Ethics in the Criticism of Black African Literature In every age, among the people, truth is the prop­ erty of the national cause. No absolute verity, no discourse on the purity of the soul, can shake this position. Frantz Fanon...

...Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Master s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition ^A^illiam Bennett and Allan Bloom, the dy­ namic duo of the new cultural right, have become the easy targets of the cultural left which I am defining here loosely and gener­...

...Rita Barnard Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Rita Barnard Dream Topographies: J. M. Coetzee and the South African Pastoral I n his recent edition of essays by and inter­ views with J. M. Coetzee, David Attwell notes that Coetzee s return to South Africa in 1976, and his second...

...Christopher Davis Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Christopher Davis Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroads of the Diaspora Tie topos defined by reference to immigration and diaspora is a particularly useful one on which to consider the relationships among diversities...

...Sharad Chari A moral frenzy surrounds Chinese and Indian capital in Africa, particularly in resource and mineral extraction. There are some good reasons for this fear and loathing about “African extraction”—the plundering of Africa and its resources—as the related processes all too often offer few...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

...Olúfė́mi Táíwò The idea of freedom rarely features at the present time in the discourse of African political philosophy. Yet, there was a time when concern with and extended discussions of freedom dominated African political philosophy. This explains, in part, how a country like Liberia, whose...

...R. L. Watson Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Mungo Park, The African Traveller . By Lupton Kenneth . New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 . Pp. xxii , 272 . $19.95 . Book Reviews 227 satiric theme. In virtually everything he wrote or translated, in other...

...James Olney Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The African Novel in Transition: Chinua Achebe James Olney Chinua Achebe, who is probably the most highly regarded novelist of West Africa and perhaps of all of black Africa, presents the student of African literature...

...Sheridan Johns Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Thrust of Pretoria s African Policy of Dialogue Sheridan Johns In mid-1971 white-ruled South Africa appeared on the verge of a diplomatic breakthrough within black Africa. Not only could she boast correct relations with her...

...W. J. Carnathan Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Proposal to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the South, 18?4-186O W. J. Carnathan College of the City of New York When the future historian shall address himself to the task of portraying the rise, progress, and decline...

...Robert F. Durden White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History . By Frederickson George M. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1981 . Pp. xxv , 356 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 BOOKS White Supremacy: A Comparative...

...James M. Gifford The Cuthbert Conspiracy: An Episode in African Colonization James M. Gifford In May 1860 Alfred Cuthbert, Jr., son of a proslavery Georgia Senator, spirited seventy of his slaves out of Georgia to rendezvous off the coast of Savannah with a vessel chartered for Liberia...

...Robert G. Gregory Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Robert G. Gregory Crisis for the British Empire The East African Challenge to the Durham Tradition Lord Salisbury stated British policy in a debate on African colo­ nies in 1947: Of course, we all want to lead on the Colonies...

...Nan Cole African Encounter: A Doctor in Nigeria . By Collis Robert . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1961 . Pp. 211 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 268 The South Atlantic Quarterly been made here, and, given the fact that other such essays on con­...

...J. Harris Proctor African One-Party States . Edited by Carter Gwendolen M. . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1962 . Pp. 513 . $7.25 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 452 The South Atlantic Quarterly easy and preferable. And there are a number of mistakes...

...Charles G. Hoffman Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Joyce Cary s African Novels: "There s a War On Charles G. Hoffmann Joyce Cary s African novels Aissa Saved (1932), An American Visitor (1933), The African Witch (1936), and Mister Johnson (1939) are often linked together...