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In the Net (Paperback)
Mahmoudan Hawad; Translated by Christopher Wise; Preface by Helene Hawad
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In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad
speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a
portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in
the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss
and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached
such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it
acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it.
Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts
to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch
together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to
transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance-a resistance
requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of
thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. Hawad
uses poetry, "cartridges of old words, / a thousand and one
misfires, botched, reloaded," as a weapon of resistance.
From the appearance of Bound to Violence in the late 1960s, Yambo
Ouologuem has been one of Africa's most controversial writers. This
book gathers together essays on Ouologuem from critics on three
continents. Also included are recent interviews with the reclusive
author.
In this significant new work in African philosophy, Christopher
Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to
Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa
today. He does so by comparing deconstructive and African thought
on the spoken utterance, nothingness, conjuration, the oath or vow,
occult sorcery, blood election, violence, circumcision, totemic
inscription practices, animal metamorphosis and sacrifice, the
Abrahamic, fratricide, and jihad. Situated against the backdrop of
the Ansar Dine's recent jihad in Northern Mali, Sorcery, Totem and
Jihad in African Philosophy examines the root causes of the
conflict and offers insight into the Sahel's ancient, complex, and
vibrant civilization. This book also demonstrates the relevance of
deconstructive thought in the African setting, especially the
writing of the Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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