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Kaveena (Hardcover)
Boubacar Boris Diop; Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure, Sara C. Hanaburgh; Foreword by Ayo A. Coly
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R1,676
R1,556
Discovery Miles 15 560
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This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious
West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The
dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head
of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the
dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist.
Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator,
N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow
leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the
natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful
men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is
the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for
vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary
tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to
this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood:
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers
the study of these writers as a category through an examination of
three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female
migrant literary tradition: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou
Diome. By studying these women together, Ayo A. Coly innovatively
introduces gender into prevailing theories of Francophone African
migrant literatures. These theories, in line with the current surge
of postnationalism in cultural criticism, claim that questions of
home and nationhood are obsolete for the present generation of
Francophone African migrant writers, but this book shows that the
opposite is true in the texts of these writers. Coly is thus able
to demonstrate how claims of postnationalism are often skewed by
gender-blind understandings of nationalism, namely a failure to
consider that women have traditionally been the sites for
discourses and practices of nationalism. Amid the negative currency
of home and nation in contemporary cultural criticism, including
postcolonial criticism, this book contends that home remains a
politically, ideologically, and emotionally loaded matter for
postcolonial subjects.
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative
analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by
women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical
thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual
female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of
African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African
scholarship which-by maintaining a culture of avoidance about
women's sexuality-generates a discursive conscription that
ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the
concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an
explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences
surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical
framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of
female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the
pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial
African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile
responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African
female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on
which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how
"ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive
engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and
bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy.
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Kaveena (Paperback)
Boubacar Boris Diop; Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure, Sara C. Hanaburgh; Foreword by Ayo A. Coly
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R634
Discovery Miles 6 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious
West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The
dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head
of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the
dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist.
Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator,
N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow
leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the
natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful
men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is
the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for
vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.
Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary
studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science,
environmental studies, and development studies, among others,
Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the
urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies
in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have
thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates,
the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, centering
within Senegalese studies themes and elements of alternative,
nonbinary, variant, and nonheteronormative gender identities,
sexualities, and voices. Contributors demonstrate that nationalist
and anticolonial discourses propelled by deep and lingering
socioeconomic inequalities have led, in postcolonial Senegal, to
vitriolic scapegoating of individuals and communities with variant
sexual and gender identities. The chapters in this volume look
inward to the voices and experiences of the Senegalese people to
challenge nationalist representations of advocacy for the
liberation of gender and sexual minorities in Senegal as a function
of a Western neocolonialist agenda.
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