The African Diaspora and the Disciplines

by Olaniyan, Tejumola; Sweet, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780253354648
• ISBN10: 0253354641
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-14
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to fill significant gaps in how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogues on the practice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives that take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly global way.

Author Biography

Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Arrest the Music! (IUP, 2004).

James H. Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441--1770.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Histories

Clio And The Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History

African Diaspora and Anthropology

How Genetics Can Provide Detail To The Transatlantic African Diaspora

Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography

African Diaspora in Archaeology

Social Sciences

Caribbean Sociology, Africa, And The African Diaspora

African Diaspora and Political Science

The African Diaspora and Philosophy

Arts and Culture

"Function at the Junction"?: African Diaspora Studies and Theatre Studies

Ethnomusicology And The African Diaspora

Semioptics of Africana Art History

Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically

Diaspora Contexts

African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa-led African Renaissance

"Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe"

List of Contributors

Index

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