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African Literature in the Twentieth Century
Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Imagining the World
This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery. The study concludes by looking at European travel literature from the early journeys of St. Brendan, through the Viking voyages and up to Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville. In all these instances, the encounters seem to justify mythical belief. Dathorne's interest in the subject is both intellectual and passionate since, coming from Guyana, he was very much part of this malformed Weltschmerz.
Worlds Apart
Examines stereotypes and the ways race has been invented and utilized by the West.
In Europe's Image
A major contribution to the new American studies, a work that shows that even radical Black and White thinkers and writers opt for Eurocentrism as the preferred ideal.
The Black Mind
None
Asian Voyages
O. R. Dathorne pursues the phenomenon of contact or encounter particularly as it relates to China and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. He looks at how the Chinese have perceived their Other as heathen and exotic, and how the West has in turn similarly perceived the Chinese. The failure of the West to relate to China in human terms is subtly documented, and is contrasted to the European experience in the New World and the African encounter of both China and the West. Dathorne breaks new ground in his analysis of the construct of the Other on the Pacific Islands. Using indigenous oral accounts, early texts of European explorers and castaways, and imaginative accounts, he reconstructs the period of contact from the native viewpoint, of those who acted as translators, pilots, guides, chartmakers and male and female companions. He calls attention to the Western habit of romancing the place while denigrating or mythologizing the people.
On the Margins
Focuses on the role played by minority' writers, particularly in English. Dathorne examines how the minority presence, at times invisible, is related, classified and designated within majority culture. Dathorne also illustrates how the majority onlooker intended to view and perceive the 'other', as early as the 15th and 16th centuries - monstrous races, gruesome objects and marvellous occurences were all located outside the sphere of the majority culture. Dathorne utilises his global knowledge in order to investigate varied responses to culture among Africans.'
Dele's Child
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Dark Ancestor
The Literature of the Black Man in the Caribbean. O.R. Dathorne's presentation of the literature of New World Blacks establishes the hypothesis of an Afro-New World literary tradition that crosses linguistic and national boundaries.
