Africa, the West and the Analogy of Culture: The Cinematic Text after Man

Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 25-76

  Wynter, Sylvia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85186306433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (100)

1. Griffith, D. W. The Birth of a Nation (1915; Film Preservation Associates, 1992).
2. Seek, Amadou Saalum. Saaraba (Senegal, 1987-8).
3. Anyanyu, K. Chukwulozie. The Studies of African Religions, (Dakar: OMNA, 1976).
4. Bateson, Gregory. Of Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: E. B. Dutton, 1974).
5. Bauman, Zygmunt. Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity, and Intellectuals (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987).
6. Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989).
7. Biko, Stephen. I Write What I Like, selection edited by Alfred Stubbs (Oxford: Heinemann International, 1978).
8. Blumenberg, Hans. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, trans. B.W. Wallace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983).
9. Bohm, David. Interview with Omni, January 1987.
10. Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
11. Campbell, D. T. ‘On the Genetics of Altruism and the Counter-Hedonk Components in Human Culture’, Journal of Social Issues, vol. 28, no. 3, 1972: 21-37.
12. Carbonell, Jaime. Subjective Understanding: Computer Models of Belief (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1981).
13. Césaire, Aimé. Lettre à Maurice Thorez, 3rd edn. (Paris: Présence Africaine, n.d.).
14. Césaire, Aimé. Poetry and Knowledge, trans. James Arnold, in Lyric and Dramatic Poetry 1946-82 by Aimé Césaire, ed. and trans. Clayton Eshelman and Annette Smith (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, Caraf Books, 1990).
15. Chalmers, David. ‘The Puzzle of Conscious Experience’, Scientific American, Dec. 1995: 80-7.
16. Crick, Francis. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (New York: Scribners, 1994).
17. Danielli, James F. ‘Altruism and the Internal Reward System or The Opium of the People’, Journal of Social and Biological Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, 1980: 87-94.
18. Davidson, Basil. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (New York: Times Books, 1992).
19. Davis, Wade. Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
20. Diawara, Manthia. Black American Cinema (New York: Routledge, 1993).
21. Dimenstein, Gilberto. War on Children (London: The Latin-American Bureau, 1995).
22. Dixon, Thomas Jr. The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1970).
23. Edelman, Gerald. Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (New York: Basic Books, 1987).
24. Eisenstein, Elizabeth. Print Culture and Enlightenment Thought (Hanes Foundation, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1986).
25. Eisenstein, Sergei M. Immoral Memories: An Autobiography, trans. H. Marshall (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983).
26. Eisenstein, Sergei M. Notes of a Film Director (New York: Dover Publications, 1970).
27. Eisenstein, Sergei M. Potemkin (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972).
28. Evans-Pritchard, Edward. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in among the Azande (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937).
29. Fanon, Frantz. Black Skins, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1967).
30. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Constance Farrington (New York: Grove Press, 1963).
31. Foucault, Michel. ‘The Order of Discourse’ [1971], trans. Ian McLeod, in Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader, ed. Robert Young (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981).
32. Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Random House, 1973).
33. Fowler, Brenda. Review of James Shreeve The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins, Sunday New York Times Review of Books, 17 Dec. 1995, p. 21.
34. Funkenstein, Amos. Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986).
35. Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
36. Gillespie, Michael. Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
37. Godelier, Maurice. The Mental and the Material: Thought, Economy, and Society (London: Verso, 1986).
38. Goldstein, Avram. Addiction: From Biology to Drug Policy (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994).
39. Grahn, Judy. Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, with foreword by Charlene Spretnak (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1993).
40. Grassi, Ernesto. Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition (University Park and London: Penn State University Press, 1982).
41. Griaule, Marcel. Conversations with Ogotemmeli (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).
42. Gutting, Gary. Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
43. Hall, Stewart. ‘The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism among the Theorists’, in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Nelson Cary and Lawrence Grossberg (London: Macmillan, 1988).
44. Hallyn, Ferdinand. The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler (New York: Zone Books, 1990).
45. Herbert, Eugenia W. Iron, Gender and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1993).
46. Herrnstein, Richard and Charles Murray. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
47. Heusch, Luc de. Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985).
48. Hubner, Kurt. The Critique of Scientific Reason (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
49. Humphrey, Nicholas. A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).
50. James, C. L. R. Notes on the Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1980).
51. Johnson, Lemuel. ‘Abeng: (Re)Calling the Body in(to) Question’ in Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990).
52. Johnson, Phillip. Darwin on Trial (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993).
53. Kelves, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1984).
54. Legesse, Asmarom. Gada: Three Approaches to the Study of African Society (New York: The Free Press, 1973).
55. Le Goff, Jacques. The Medieval Imagination, trans. A. Goldhammer (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
56. Lemarchand, René. Rwanda and Burundi (London: Pall Mall Press, 1970).
57. Lieberman, Philip. Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
58. Lyotard, Jean Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. G. Bennington and B. Massumi, foreword by F. Jameson (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
59. Madsen, Roy Paul. The Impact of Film: How Ideas Are Communicated through Cinema and Television (New York: Macmillan, 1973).
60. Maranda, Pierre. ‘The Dialectic of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay on Hermeneutics’, in The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation, ed. S. R. Suleiman and I. Crosman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980).
61. Mayer, David. Eisenstein’s Potemkin: A Shot by Shot Presentation (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972).
62. Michael, A. J. Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
63. Miers, Suzanne and Igor Kapytoff, (eds) Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977).
64. Miller, Jonathan. ‘Trouble in Mind’, Scientific American, Sept. 1992: 180.
65. Mirandola, Pico della. On the Dignity of Man and Other Essays, trans. J. W. Miller (Indianapolis, New York, Kansas City: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940).
66. Morowitz, Harold. ‘Balancing Species Preservation and Economic Consideration,' Science, vol. 253, AAAS, 16 August 1991.
67. Mosse, George. The Final Solution: A History of European Racism (New York: Howard Fertig, 1976).
68. Mudimbe, V. Y. The Idea of Africa (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994).
69. Mudimbe, V. Y. The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988).
70. Nicholas, Antonio T. de. ‘Notes on the Biology of Religion’, Journal of Social and Biological Structures, vol. 3, April 1980: 219-26.
71. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans, and ed. William Kaufman (New York: The Modern Library, 1968).
72. Nietzsche, Friedrich. ‘On Truth and Falsity in the Ultra-Moral Sense’, trans. A. Muge, in The Existential Tradition, ed. Nino Languilli (New York: Doubleday & Co., Anchor Books, 1971).
73. Obenga, Théophile. ‘Sous-Thème: La Pensée africaine et la philosophie dans une perspective de renouvellement’, unpublished paper presented at a symposium organised by FESPAC, Dakar, 15-19 Dec. 1987.
74. Pagden, Anthony. The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origin of Comparative Ethnology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
75. Pager, Harald. The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandenberg, in Africa Praehistorica series: monographs of African Archaeology and Environment, compiled by Tilman Lenssen-Erz, ed. Rudolph Ruber, Part 1, Vol. 1 (Köln: Heinrich-Barth Institut, 1993).
76. Pandian, Jacob. Anthropology and the Western Tradition: Towards an Authentic Anthropology (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1985).
77. Pfaff, Françoise. The Cinema ofOusmane Sembène: A Pioneer of African Film (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984).
78. Pfeiffer, John E. The Creative Explosion: An Inquiry into the Origins of Art and Religion (New York: Harper & Row, 1982).
79. Pocock, J. G. A. Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History (1960; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
80. Pocock, J. G. A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Political Tradition. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975).
81. Ricoeur, Paul. ‘Ideology and Utopia as Cultural Imagination’, in Being Human in a Technological Age, ed. D. M. Borchert and D. Stewart (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1979), pp. 107-25.
82. Scubla, Lucien. ‘Contribution à la théorie du sacrifice’, in René Girard et le problème du mal, ed. M. Deguy and Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1982).
83. Solomon, Anne. ‘Rock Art in Southern Africa’, Scientific American, Nov. 1996: 106-12.
84. Taussig, Michael. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1987).
85. Taviani, Paolo Emilio. Columbus, the Great Adventure: His Life, His Times, and His Voyages (New York: Orion Books, 1991).
86. Taylor, Clyde ‘Black Cinema in a Post-Aesthetic Era’, in Questions of Third Cinema, ed. Jim Pines and Paul Willemen. (London: BFI, 1989), p. 90.
87. Taylor, Clyde ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero: AntiThesis on Aesthetics’, in Blackframes: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema, ed. Mbye B. Cham and Claire Andrade-Watkins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), pp. 80-5.
88. Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1984).
89. Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank. Black African Cinema (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994).
90. Wallace, Michele. ‘Race, Gender and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film: Lost Boundaries, Home of the Brave, The Quiet One’, in Black American Cinema, ed. M. Diawara (New York: Routledge, 1993).
91. Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the World Economy in the Sixteenth Century (London: Academic Press, 1974).
92. Whitney, M. L. and Dermott Hussey. Bob Marley: Reggae King of the World (Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston Publishers, 1989).
93. Winch, Peter. ‘Understanding a Primitive Society’, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. I: 307-24.
94. Wright, Philip. Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (New York: Times Books, 1988).
95. Wynter, Sylvia. ‘Columbus and the Poetics of the Propter Nos’ in Discovering Columbus, ed. D. Kadir, Annals of Scholarship; An International Quarterly in the Humanities and Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2 (Detroit, IL: Wayne State University Press, 1992).
96. Wynter, Sylvia. '1492: A New World View’, in Race, Discourse, and the Origins of the Americas, ed. V. L. Hyatt et al. (Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1995).
97. Wynter, Sylvia. '“Genital Mutilaton” or “Symbolic.Birth”? Female Circumcision, Lost Origins, and the Aculturalism of Feminist/Western Thought’, in Colloquium; Bridging Society, Culture and Law in Case Western Law Review, vol. 47, no. 2, winter 1997: 501-52.
98. Wynter, Sylvia. ‘Is Development a Purely Empirical Concept? Or Is It also Teleological? A Perspective from “we the underdeveloped” ', in Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa, ed. A. Y. Yansane (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996).
99. Wynter, Sylvia. ‘The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King of Castile a Madman: Culture as Actuality and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity’, in The Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada in the Hood, ed. Alvina Ruprecht and Cecilia Taiana (Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University Press, 1995).
100. Wynter, Sylvia. ‘Rethinking “Aesthetics”: Notes towards a Deciphering Practice’, in Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema, ed. Mbye Cham (Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 1992).