Joining Africa

by Cantalupo, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781611860368
• ISBN10: 1611860369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's twenty-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africais a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination. It is rich with the voices of its people, whose languages, Cantalupo argues, have greater potential to effect change than any NGO or high-profile celebrity. In vibrant prose, Cantalupo's book extends a stirring invitation to reevaluate how we engage - both individually and collectively - with this remarkable part of the world.

Author Biography

Charles Cantalupo is Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Penn State University, Schuylkill.

Table of Contents

Preface. Light the Lights	p. vii
From the Other Direction	p. 1
Connection	p. 25
Both Sides	p. 33
The Journey Provided	p. 51
Interpretation	p. 69
Rome's Rome	p. 91
Where a Camel Roams	p. 113
I Carved a Dream	p. 125
Red Sea Foam	p. 145
I Wrestled the Devil	p. 169
A Draw	p. 197
A Medallion	p. 205
The Poem	p. 237
Epilogue. I Came to Carthage	p. 261
Notes	p. 263
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