Voices of the Poor in Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID3913093
AuthorsDaniel Jordan Smith (0000-0002-2612-9166), Elizabeth Isichei
Year2003
Volume36
Issue2
Pages445
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3559397
OpenAlexW1601480080
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Isichei's fine book points the way to further integration between anthropology and history, providing a rich example of the means by which scholars can investigate popular consciousness by taking seriously the world of symbolic meaning. - Intl. J of African Historical Studies Vol 36 No 2 (2003). Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. She brings together a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, fiction, art and art history, philosophy, and contemporary literary theory - to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premisses. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest at their exploitation by generation after generation of powerful foreigners and locals. Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, and author of over a dozen books on African history and political thought

Geography · Political science · African history and culture studies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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