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"Transition" celebrates its 75th issue! Founded by the young Rajat Neogy in Uganda in 1961, Transition became the forum where intellectuals of an independent Africa found their voice. Transition was intellectually provocative, visually engaging, and fearless in skewering the pieties of right and left, black and white. It defended freedom of the press and critiqued the 'ethnic turn' in African politics, from Rwanda to Biafra to Uganda. In 1967, the "New York Times" called the journal 'Africa's slickest, sprightliest, and occasionally sexiest magazine'. Although Neogy was jailed for his efforts and "Transition" was forced to move, first to Ghana and then to England, the publication again flourished under the editorial leadership of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka before closing down in 1976. "Transition" was revived in 1991 by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and it is now the official publication of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.For this anniversary issue the editors have collected the most provocative, intelligent, and influential work from the first fifty issues of the magazine: essays, interviews, photographs, and angry letters. The controversies that defined postcolonial Africa rage anew. Nkrumah the Leninist Czar, Ali Mazrui's notorious dissection of Ghana's founding father, ignited an argument over nationalism and authenticity that lived on in a torrent of letters to the editor, all included here. "The Decolonization of African Literature", the famous polemic written by three young Nigerian critics, is reprinted in full, alongside Wole Soyinka's blistering response. Paul Theroux's "Tarzan" is an Expatriate, an indictment of white culture in Africa, continues to generate mail thirty years later.This issue also offers perspectives on other concerns from the 1960s and 1970s: a journalist in Bolivia watches the mummification of Che Guevara; America is taken to task for the Vietnam war; the publication of "Human Sexual Response" occasions a wry examination of the female orgasm; a victim of Greek fascism pens a secret diary from jail in Athens; the exiled leader of the Black Panthers reviews his experience in the Third World on the eve of his return to the U.S.; a young Asian flees Idi Amin's Uganda. The publication of this anniversary issue not only marks a milestone in the history of "Transition", but also provides a much needed resource that will interest the general reader as well as scholars and activists from a wide range of fields.
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- EditoreDuke Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0822364581
- ISBN 13 9780822364580
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
- RedattoreAppiah Kwame Anthony, Gates Henry Louis, Vazquez Michael Colin
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Transition 75/76: The Anniversary Issue - Selections from Transition, 1961-1976
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Brand: Duke University Press, 1999
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ISBN 13: 9780822364580
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Anniversary. There will be no birth without miscegenation.-Rajat Neogy, 1961Transition was founded in Uganda in 1961, a time of seemingly infinite possibility. Kampala, the magazines home, was a cosmopolitan city with a literary community that included Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, Ali Mazrui, Ezekiel Mphahlele, and Okot pBitek. Its editor was a rakish young Ugandan, Rajat Neogy, whose intellect and humor quickly gained international attention: in 1967, the New York Times called the journal Africas slickest, sprightliest, and occasionally sexiest magazine. Transition was intellectually provocative, visually engaging, and fearless in skewering the pieties of right and left, black and white; it defended freedom of the press and critiqued the ethnic turn in African politics, from Rwanda to Biafra to Uganda itself. In the pages of Transition, the intellectuals of an independent Africa found their voice.Rajat Neogy was jailed for his efforts, a casualty of Cold War machinations and homegrown authoritarianism. Transition was forced to move, first to Ghana and then to England; the editorship passed to the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, whose Transition rededicated itself to partisanship in African politics-famously calling for the death of Idi Amin on one cover-and to the promulgation of the black arts. Finally, in 1976, the magazine closed shop for good.In 1991, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.-both of them students of Soyinkas at Cambridge University-revived the Transition of their youth. (The magazine is now the official publication of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.) In celebration of the magazines 75th issue, the editors have collected the most provocative, intelligent, and influential work from the first fifty issues of the magazine: essays, interviews, photographs, and angry letters.In this anthology, the controversies that defined postcolonial Africa rage anew. Writers debated the importance of the English language for the African writer, the fate of Africas Asians, the white expatriate as Tarzan, Western democracy and African socialism, the African leader as Leninist Czar. Ali Mazruis notorious dissection of Kwame Nkrumah ignited an argument over nationalism and authenticity that lived on in a torrent of letters to the editor, all included here. The Decolonization of African Literature, the famous polemic penned by three young Nigerian critics, is reprinted in full, alongside Wole Soyinkas blistering response. Paul Therouxs Tarzan is an Expatriate, an indictment of white culture in Africa, continues to generate mail thirty years later.The Anniversary Issue also provides a unique window onto the Sixties in general: a Swedish journalist in Bolivia watches the mummification of Che Guevara; the author of An American Dilemma takes America to task for the Vietnam War; the publication of Human Sexual Response occasions a wry and ruthless examination of the female orgasm; a victim of Greek fascism pens a secret diary from an Athenian jail; the exiled leader of the Black Panthers looks back on his experience in the Third World on the eve of his return to the United States; a young Asian flees Idi Amins Uganda. Codice articolo SONG0822364581
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Transition: The Anniversary Issue: Selections from Transition, 1961-1976, Vol. 7 No. 3/4, Issue 75/76.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. TRANSITION. Editors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Contributors: MLK, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Paul Theroux, Eldridge Cleaver, Chinua Achebe, et al. "Transition: The Anniversary Issue: Selections from Transition, 1961-1976, Vol. 7 No. 3/4, Issue 75/76." Duke University Press and the W. E. B. DuBois Institute; Durham, NC, 1998. English language. Softcover. 420 pages. Ink underlining. Wear and use on covers. Creasing on back cover. Good. ISSN: 0041-1191. ISBN: 0822364581. Codice articolo ABE-1665450962233
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