Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa changes dominant ideas about Africa's relations with modernity and the global history of nationalism by recovering, and bringing fresh interpretations to, a modern genealogy of African nationalist theory Author Kwaku Larbi Korang examines the writing of intellectuals from preindependence Ghana from the ожодф latter half of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, writers who operated self-consciously in a Pan-African ideological framework By confronting the concept of "the African Nation" under the colonial order, Korang contends that these writer-intellectuals were also confronting modernity in ways that would be important to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries Through its affiliation with recent revisionary works that have demonstrated the conceptual and existential validity of "alternative modernities," the volume shifts our understanding of the modern from a securely and exclusively Western mode of being to the modern as relational and inclusively intercultural It mobilizes this relational and intercultural conception to locate and outline "African modernity " Additionally,Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa demonstrates why and how projections of, and debates about, "African modernity" have been more than a continental affair Korang comprehensively relates the thought of African Americans (Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, W E B Du Bois, Richard Wright), and West Indians (George Padmore, C L R James), to that of seminal anglophone West African thinkers like E W Blyden, Africanus Horton, J E Casely Hayford, and Kwame Nkrumah Kwaku Larbi Korang is associate professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Ohio State University.  Водостойкий2009 г Мягкая обложка, 364 стр ISBN 1580463169.