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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780674034242
035			_a(DE-B1597)584977
035			_a(OCoLC)1322125622
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
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082	0	4	_a966.5205092
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aDiawara, Manthia _eautore
245	1	0	_aIn Search of Africa / _cManthia Diawara.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c2000
300			_a1 online resource (304 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tPreface -- _tContents -- _tSituation I. Sartre and African Modernism -- _tSituation II. Richard Wright and Modern Africa -- _tSituation III. Malcolm X: Conversionists versus Culturalists -- _tSituation IV. Homeboy Cosmopolitan -- _tReferences -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_a"There I was, standing alone, unable to cry as I said goodbye to Sidimé Laye, my best friend, and to the revolution that had opened the door of modernity for me--the revolution that had invented me." This book gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future. In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. He is beginning work on a documentary about Sékou Touré, the dictator who was Guinea's first post-independence leader. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to discover that he is not. The Africa that Diawara finds is not the one on the verge of barbarism, as described in the Western press. Yet neither is it the Africa of his childhood, when the excitement of independence made everything seem possible for young Africans. His search for Sidimé Laye leads Diawara to profound meditations on Africa's culture. He suggests solutions that might overcome the stultifying legacy of colonialism and age-old social practices, yet that will mobilize indigenous strengths and energies. In the face of Africa's dilemmas, Diawara accords an important role to the culture of the diaspora as well as to traditional music and literature--to James Brown, Miles Davis, and Salif Kéita, to Richard Wright, Spike Lee, and the ancient epics of the griots. And Diawara's journey enlightens us in the most disarming way with humor, conversations, and well-told tales.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674034242?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674034242
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674034242/original
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