Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation Of (Re- )Colonisation : Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa.
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| Author / Creator: | Nhemachena, Artwell. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2017. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541338 |
| Summary: | Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing �connections�, �relationships� and �associations� between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about �separation�, �alienation�, and �disconnections� between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists� dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment �materialises� in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789956764570 9956764574 |