{"product_id":"the-black-mind-o-r-dathorne-9780816657391","title":"The Black Mind: A History of African Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Mind\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe comprehensive account of the development of African literature from its beginnings in oral tradition to its contemporary expression in the writings of Africans in various African and European languages provides insight, both broad and deep, into the Black intellect. Professor Dathorne examines the literature of Africans as spoken or written in their local languages and in Latin, French, Portuguese, and English. This extensive survey and interpretation gives the reader a remarkable pathway to an understanding of the Black imagination and its relevance to thought and creativity throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author himself lived in Africa for ten years, and his view in not that of an outsider, since it is as a Black man that he speaks about Black people. Throughout the book, a major theme is the demonstration that, despite slavery and colonialism, Africans remained very close to their own cultures. Professor Dathorne shows that African writers may be, like some Afro-American writers, \"marginal men,\" but that they are Black men and it is as Black men that they feel the nostalgia of their past and the corrosive influences of their present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe chapters are divided into sections: Tradition; Heritage; The Presence of Europe; and Crosscurrents. In the final chapters the author extends the thread of continuity to the New World-Africa as present in the work of Black writers in the United States and in the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e O. R. Dathorne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816657394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816657391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"O. R. Dathorne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962523767039,"sku":"9780816657391","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c911c09-8305-4481-8617-3adb9ede7ac5.jpg?v=1750651707","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-mind-o-r-dathorne-9780816657391","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}