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Baker&Taylor

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement xi
Preface xiii
Molefi K. Asante
Introduction: White Eyes, Dark Reflections 1 (20)
Daniel Mengara
PART I - Ancient European Perceptions of Africa 21 (62)
``European Images of Africa - Tale of Two 23 (24)
Names: Ethiop and N---''
Martin Bernal
``Menelaos, the Cyclopes, and Eurybates: a 47 (14)
Post-Colonial Reading of Homer''
Miriam Dow
``European Images of Africa from Early Times 61 (22)
to the Eighteenth Century''
Buluda Itandala
PART II - Western Imperial Ideology in Theory 83 (54)
and Practice
``Strategic Amnesia: Versions of Vasco da 85 (20)
Gama on the Kenya Coast''
Janet S. McIntosh
``Literature of Empire and the African 105 (22)
Environment''
Mahamadou Diallo
``From Crusades to Colonies: Africa in French 127 (10)
Literature''
Kristof Haavik
PART III - Africa, Orientalism and the West 137 (56)
``The North-African Motif in Early American 139 (20)
Fiction''
Mongi Bahloul
``Mediterranean Waterways, Extended Borders 159 (16)
and Colonial Mappings: French Images of North
Africa''
Jonathan Gosnell
``Transposing the Political & the 175 (18)
Aesthetical: Eugene Fromentin's Contributions
to Oriental Stereotypes''
Valerie Orlando
PART IV - Africa in the Americas 193 (42)
``In Brightest Africa': Naturalistic 195 (14)
Constructions of Africa in the American
Museum of Natural History, 1910-1936''
Jeannette Eileen Jones
``From Race to Class: the African American 209 (10)
Literary Response to the Italo-Ethiopian War''
John Gruesser
``The Herero in the Hartz: Pynchon's 219 (16)
Re-Presentation of Race Relations in
Gravity's Rainbow''
Victoria Ramirez
PART V - Media-ting Africa 235 (44)
``In the Heart of Sickness: A Life Portrait 237 (12)
of Dr. Albert Schweitzer''
Jessica Levin
``Scarred for Life?' Representations of 249 (12)
Africa and Female Genital Cutting on American
Television News Magazines''
Martha Grise
``(US-Centered Afrocentric Imaginations of 261 (18)
Africa: L.H. Clegg's When Black Men Ruled the
World, and Eddie Murphy's Coming to America''
Jean Muteba Rahier
PART VI - Feminism and Women in Africa 279 (46)
``Perceptions of African Feminism: A 281 (26)
Socio-Historical Perspective''
Daniel M. Mengara
``African Women: Educational Opportunities 307 (18)
and the Dynamics of Change''
Bill Gaudelli
PART VII - African Literatures: Text and 325 (68)
Pre-Text
``Once Upon A Time... Representations, 327 (16)
Misrepresentations and Rehabilitations in
African Literatures''
Augustine Okereke
``Oxford, Black Oxford': Dambudzo Marechera 343 (32)
and the Last Colony in Africa''
David Pattison
``Playing Africa: The Fictions of Ferdinand 375 (18)
Oyono''
Sharmilla Sen
Index 393