White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa

Atkinson, William; Gruesser, John

doi:10.2307/3201031

South Atlantic Review

1993

DOI: 10.2307/3201031

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White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa

William Atkinson¹,

John Gruesser²

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The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-Tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau

Gable¹

2000

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As members of a youth organization called the "Culture Development Club," young men of the Manjaco ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau respond to and try to manage what they perceive to be community collapse in the face of endemic demographic decline. "The Club" is a postcolonial institution whose history reflects the local appropriation of foreign formats. I suggest, however, that by looking at the various ways youth in the "club" enacted their theories of culture as an ongoing "tradition," we see youth's enduring centrality in the creation of Manjaco social relations.

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The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-Tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau

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2000

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Lighting Out for the Global Territory: Postwar Revisions of Cultural Anthropology and Jewish American Identity in Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King

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Saul Bellow enthusiastically explored the creative possibilities of globalization after World War II, imagining a space of creative freedom outside the boundaries of the nation-state. In so doing he helped to transform American Jewishness from a leftist culture rooted in working-class politics and racial alliances into a more syncretic, market-oriented form of identity. His major work of travel fiction, Henderson the Rain King , criticizes European colonial discourse and valorizes the hybrid cosmopolitan Dahfu, psychotherapist and African king, who acts as Henderson’s intellectual mentor. Although antiracist in intent, Bellow’s vision of travel-fueled 3 professional autonomy opposes collective movements for social change and nationalist resistance to imperialism, which helps to explain his neoconservative turn in the 1970s.

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Labour Party Reforms Versus Imperialist Literary Practice

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2001

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White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa

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The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-Tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau

The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-Tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau

Lighting Out for the Global Territory: Postwar Revisions of Cultural Anthropology and Jewish American Identity in Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King

Labour Party Reforms Versus Imperialist Literary Practice

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