Anthem Press - Muhammad Ali In Africana Cultural Memory - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a contemporary evaluation primarily of Ali in African - American and African diasporic memory based on the field of Africana studies updated critical tools for considering inheritance mythological structure memorialization epic intuitive conduct hero dynamics immortalization philosophy and resistance - based cognitive survival. In terms of how Muhammad Ali as an historical actor has left an heroic legacy that bequeaths to us a sort of inheritance the critical task at hand is to systematically explore this historical actor's life feats philosophy grit worldview and even his folkloric antiheroic to decipher his Africana cultural memory value. At the core of this edited collection is a commitment to enhance the cultural storytelling about Muhammad Ali and to critically itemize the lessons we garner from his life as allegory. The ancestral life is one that is remembered and recalled. The contributors research uncovers Ali's local national and global encounters that are legacy worldviews. These perspectives give us direction for mining the critical depth of Ali's encounters which map his memory in terms of culturally sustaining confidence self - esteem reinvention immortalization and empathy. These are the fertile seeds of Africana cultural memory which bloom into powerful markers and monuments of an epic life of hyperheroic activity relevant to cultural memory sports history politics health and aesthetics.
Title: Muhammad Ali In Africana Cultural Memory
Brand: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785277191
Pages: 268 Pages
Publication Date: 1/11/2022
Series: Anthem Africology Series
Category: Social & Cultural History