Sensuous Knowledge references and recommended reading | Feminism and Social Criticism by Minna Salami

“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