Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the showmen, impresarios, and even scientists who brought supposedly representative inhabitants of the "Dark Continent" to a gaping public often selected the

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This book shows how recovering originary Nilotic philosophy is one of the few truly viable ways of rethinking philosophy and literary theory in the wake of the nihilist perspective with which postmodernism and deconstruction have left us

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ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802161963

and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world

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