Imagining vernacular histories : essays in honor of Toyin Falola /: essays in honor of Toyin Falola. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Abikal Borah.
• Editors: Sotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa; Borah, Abikal
• Other Names: Falola, Toyin honouree.
• Contents: Introduction: African Historiography, Vernacular Epistemology, and the Making of the Historical Archive – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mobolanle Sotunsa and Abikal Borah ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: Critiques of Postcolonial African Historiography ; Modern African Historiography: Toyin Falola and the Others – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Charles Thomas, The University of Texas at Austin. ; In Defence of the Pluriverse: A Critical Appreciation of Toyin Falola’s Scholarship – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Abikal Borah, The University of Texas at Austin. ; African ‘Historians, Are Archaeologists Your Siblings?’: Evaluating Toyin Falola’s Contribution to the Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Benjamin Nutor, The University of Texas at Austin. ; “Ritual Archives” and OERs: Digital Humanities, Pedagogy, and African Studies, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Danielle Sanchez, Muhlenberg College. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: Gender, Sexuality, and African Historiography ; ; Toyin Falola and the Pathologies and Pathways for African Feminist Scholarship – <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Babcock University. ; Beyond the Proscription of History and the Futility of ‘Feminist Talk’: Merging the Scholarship of Narrative Politics and Cinematic Frames in Gendered Escavations of the African Past – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College. ; Africa and African Women in Conversation – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Nemeta Blyden, The George Washington University. ; The Politics of Polygyny and Subjectivity in Toyin Falola’s <span style="font-style:italic;">A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Babcock University. ; Toyin Falola’s Scholarship on African Women and Gender: Conceptualizations at the Intersection of African and Feminist Epistemologies - <span style="font-weight:bold;">Bridget Teboh, The University of Massachusetts. ; Dynamics of Female Gender Survival Strategies in Contemporary African Novels – <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Eziwanyi Adam, Babcock University. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III: Vernacular Epistemologies and the African Archive ; The Archivist as Muse: Toyin Falola’s Experimentation with History in a Mouth Sweeter than Salt - <span style="font-weight:bold;">Ademola Dasylva, University of Ibadan ; The Ancestral Memory and Invisible World of Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela - <span style="font-weight:bold;">Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi, University of South Africa. ; ; Twin Rivers of African Cultural Heritage: Reading Falola’s <span style="font-style:italic;">A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Aisha M Umar and Francis Miracle, Federal University, Nigeria. ; ; An Analysis of Narrative Language Use in Toyin Falola’s Memoir, <span style="font-style:italic;">A Mouth Sweeter than Salt - <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Joshua Agbo, Anglia Ruskin University. ; ; ‘Women are the Salt of the Earth’: A Folkoric and Feminist Re-Reading of <span style="font-style:italic;">A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – <span style="font-weight:bold;">Bridget Anthonia Yakubu, National Open University of Nigeria. ; <li style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;">History of Development in Africa: An Exploration into the Works of Toyin Falola – <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo <span style="font-style:italic;">, Educor Hodings Johannesburg Area, South Africa
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 960.072; Political Science: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Political Science: History & Theory; Africa -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786614629
• Related ISBNs: 9781786614612
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