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Atlas's Bones The African Foundations of Europe | 965.83 KB
Title: Atlas's Bones
Author: D. Vance Smith
Category: Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, African, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
Language: English | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0226830306
Description:
A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.
Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as cornerstones of European culture. Yet, in Atlas's Bones , D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Ages-its great themes in literature, its sources in political thought, its religious beliefs-originated in the writings of African thinkers like Augustine, Fulgentius, and Martianus Capella, or Europeans who thought extensively about Africa. In fact, a third of Virgil's Aeneid takes place in Africa. Francis Petrarch believed his most important achievement was his epic Africa; while Geoffrey Chaucer wrote repeatedly about the figures of Scipio Africanus, actually two different men who defeated and destroyed Carthage.
Smith tells the story of how Europe created a false "medieval" version of...
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