Re - Ojogbon Falola's Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
Cornelius Hamelberg
A whole chapter of Ricardo R. Gordon’s Existentia Africana is, it were, a philosophically explorative precursor, devoted to Ojogbon Toyin Falola’s latest effulgence in that genre : Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
“It is no wonder that the autobiographical medium has dominated black modes of written expression. The autobiographical moment afforded a contradiction in racist reason: How could the black, who by definition was not fully human and hence without a point of view, produce a portrait of his or her point of view? The black autobiography announced a special form of biography, a text that was read for insight into blackness, which meant that paradoxically some of the problems of epistemic closure continued through an engagement that admitted epistemic possibility. The interest in black autobiography carried expectation and curiosity” ( P, 23 - A Problem of Biography in Africana Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
Cornelius Hamelberg
A whole chapter of Ricardo R. Gordon’s Existentia Africana is, it were, a philosophically explorative precursor, devoted to Ojogbon Toyin Falola’s latest effulgence in that genre : Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
“It is no wonder that the autobiographical medium has dominated black modes of written expression. The autobiographical moment afforded a contradiction in racist reason: How could the black, who by definition was not fully human and hence without a point of view, produce a portrait of his or her point of view? The black autobiography announced a special form of biography, a text that was read for insight into blackness, which meant that paradoxically some of the problems of epistemic closure continued through an engagement that admitted epistemic possibility. The interest in black autobiography carried expectation and curiosity” ( P, 23 - A Problem of Biography in Africana Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
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