Title:	Emerging Afrikan Survivals
Other Titles:	An Afrocentric Critical Theory
Authors:	Kamau, Kemayó Graham Russell Hodges
Keywords:	An Afrocentric Critical Theory
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	This project engages more than twenty years of study that culminated in a doctoral dissertation in 1998. This text is essentially that dissertation with a few corrections, revisions, and elaborations. The relatively few modifications function to maintain the integrity of the original research. It is always tempting to revisit previous research and expand it according to one’s current perspective as well as to incorporate changes and new developments in the field. Certainly, there is no such thing as a perfectly written text of any significant length. In revising this book, I constantly sought to say things better and caught myself trying to say more. In the author’s note of my beat up copy of Samuel Delany’s City of a Thousand Suns, he warns of the dangers of constantly whittling at fiction or poetry. I have come to believe that the same applies to research. This process, for me, has been more like making a stew or planting a garden. Of course, one wants to remove the weeds. But when does one decide that one more plant would be too many, or one more pinch of pepper is too much? Delany represents my feelings about this text better than I could, “And I suspect, with all its flaws and excesses, it is time to stop whittling.” (Delany 1965)
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10085
ISBN:	0-203-48397-9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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