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Sensuous Knowledge references and recommended reading

September 14, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.” So said the poet Allen Ginsberg, and he was right. In addition to poetry, our awareness of the world is expanded by the arts (music, visual art, sculpting etc.) which are a kind of poetry.

The influences and antecedents in Sensuous Knowledge are from variegated fields and forms. The references below are listed in order of appearance in the book.

Literature referenced

  • Rosa Luxemburg – several titles
  • Marie Mies – Women, The Last Colony
  • Toni Morrisson – several titles
  • Sandra Harding – “Women’s standpoints on nature”
  • W.E.B. Du Bois – Souls of Black Folk
  • Wole Soyinka – Of Africa
  • Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider
  • Banji Akintoye – A History of the Yoruba People
  • John Milton – Of Education
  • Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber – The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
  • Baruch Spinoza – Proposition Seven
  • David Chalmers – The hard problem of consciousness
  • Francis Bacon – Novum Organon
  • bell hooks – several titles
  • Zi Ye or “Lady Midnight” – untitled poem
  • Alain Badiou – In Praise of Love
  • Patricia Hill Collins – Black Feminist Thought
  • Alice Walker – In Search of our Mother’s Gardens
  • Chimamanda Adichie – several titles
  • Jonathan Marks – Is Science Racist
  • Sophie Bosede Oluwole – Socrates and Orunmila: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy
  • Teju Cole – interviews
  • Langston Hughes – The Black Clown
  • Akira Kurosawa – interviews
  • Anne-Pauline van der A – Becoming Annot: Identity Through Clown
  • James Baldwin – several titles
  • Pumla Dineo Gqola – A Renegade Called Simphiwe
  • Aja Monet – My Mother was a Freedom Fighter
  • Abena Busia – Liberation
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti – several titles
  • Kofi Awoonor – interviews
  • Chris Abani – The Face
  • Frantz Fanon – several titles
  • Grad Kilomba – Plantation Memories
  • Buche Emecheta
  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o – Decolonising the Mind
  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii – Ngaahika Ndeenda (“I Will Marry When I Want”)
  • Edward Said – Orientalism
  • Walter Mignolo – The Idea of Latin America
  • Nwando Achebe – Shaping Our Struggles: Nigerian Women in History.
  • Alamin Mazrui – Mimi Ni Mimi (I Am I) trans. from Swahili by Katriina Ranne
  • Ben Okri – several titles
  • James Sidbury – Becoming African in America
  • Martin Luther King – autobiography
  • Elaine Brown – A Taste of Power
  • Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
  • Shulamith Firestone – The Dialectic of Sex
  • Nina Power – One-Dimensional Woman
  • Oyeronke Oyewumi – African Women and Feminism
  • Bibi Bakare-Yusuf – Yellow Fever Nko
  • Ifi Amadiume – Male Daughters, Female Husbands
  • Hélène Cixous – écriture féminine
  • Iris Young – Intersecting Voices
  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run With the Wolves
  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – 491 Days
  • Rebecca Walker – The Third Wave
  • Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique
  • Robin Morgan – Sisterhood Is Powerful
  • Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa – This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color;
  • Obioma Nnaemeka – Sisterhood, Feminisms & Power
  • Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez – Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Combahee River Collective statement
  • Mary Beard – Power
  • Talcott Parsons – in Power: Critical Concept
  • John R. P. French and Bertram Raven
  • Steven Lukes – A Radical View
  • Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince
  • Hannah Arendt – On Violence
  • Mary Parker Follett – Collected Papers
  • Swami Satyananda Saraswati
  • Sandra Harding – Women’s Standpoints on Nature
  • Mungo Park – Travels in the interior districts of Africa
  • UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RIVER RIGHTS
  • William Hogarth – The Analysis of Beauty
  • George David Birkhoff – Aesthetic Measure
  • Immanuel Kant – “Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime”
  • Richard O. Prum – Evolution of Beauty
  • Abhinavagupta
  • Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth
  • Sheila Jeffreys – Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
  • Peg Zeglin Brand – Beauty Matters
  • Janell Hobson – Venus in the Dark
  • John Milton – Paradise Lost
  • John Berger – Ways of Seeing
  • Yvonne Vera – Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women’s Writing
  • Yaba Blay – What About Yellow Fever?
  • Eduardo Galeano – Mirrors
  •  Esther Sietmann Warner Dendel – Indigo: A Folktale from Liberia

Art and artists discussed

  • Lauryn Hill – MTV Unplugged
  • Miriam Makeba – Beware Verwoerd
  • Nina Simone – Four Women
  • Nina Simon – To be young, gifted and black
  • Beyonce – Lemonade
  • Casper David Friedrich – Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
  • Sinead ‘ o’ Connor
  • Fiona Apple
  • Pussy Riot
  • Joss Stone
  • Alanis Morrisette
  • Bob Marley
  • Tracy Chapman
  • Wu Tan clan
  • Marvin Gaye
  • Fela Kuti
  • Nipsey Hussle
  • Salt-N-Pepa
  • Peter Paul Rubens – The Four Philosophers
  • Mickalene Thomas – Le déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les trois femmes noires
  • The Melodians – Rivers of Babylon
  • India Arie – Acoustic Soul
  • Manuela Sambo
  • Phoebe Boswell
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • Hans Baldung
  • Gustav Klimt
  • Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Black Panther
  • Tupac Shakur
  • Nicole Wittenberg
  • Sylvia Sleigh
  • Leonor Fini
  • Celia Hempton
  • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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Hi! I'm Minna Salami, I'm a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish writer and social critic, and the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. As a lecturer and keynote speaker, I have spoken at over 300 universities, cultural events and conferences, on five continents. I am the author of "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone - a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world." (Harper Collins US) Read full bio

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