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Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Postcolonial Encounters
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These essays on postcolonial subjectivities cross the frontiers of
critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments
Africans confront in strikingly different parts of the continent at
the start of the 21st century. The focus is on the making of
subjectivities as a process which is political, a matter of
subjugation to state authority; moral, reflected in the conscience
and agency of subjects who bear rights, duties and obligations; and
realised existentially, in the subjects' consciousness of their
personal or intimate relations. The notion of agency is
interrogated, without lapsing into the new Afro-pessimism. The
essays recognise postcolonies troubled by state decline and
increasing exploitation, dispossession and marginalisation, but
avoid Afro-pessimism's reduction of subjects to mere victims. Even
more against the grain of conventional postcolonial studies is the
radical questioning of the force of 'modern subjectivism' in
struggles for control of identity, autonomy and explicit
consciousness, and through artistic self-fashioning in globally
driven consumption. With substantial cases based on autobiography,
personal experience and long-term scholarly fieldwork in countries
as diverse as Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Botswana and
Cameroon, the book opens out a fresh field for comparative research
and theory on postcolonial transformations in intersubjectivity.
This is to take seriously the people's perception, so widespread in
postcolonial Africa, that to live life to the full is to live it in
interdependence, in conviviality, if possible; that care and
respect for others - indeed, civility - is a precious, and indeed,
precarious condition of survival and as such is the object of
recognised strategies for its conscious defence; and that because
significant others are opaque - never being totally knowable -
uncertainty, ambivalence and contingency are inescapable conditions
of human existence.
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