Postcoloniality - decoloniality - Black Critique : joints and fissures / Sabine Broeck, Carsten Junker (eds.).

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism.

Europe.

Black people.

Racism--Europe.

Racism.

Postcolonialism--Europe.

Decolonization--Europe.

Physical Description:

398 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Campus, 2014.

Summary:

How can Western Modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? The volume maps out answers to this question from the fields of Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Black Studies, delineating converging and diverging positions, approaches, and trajectories. It assembles contributions by renowned scholars of the respective fields, intervening in History, Sociology, Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Epistemic Repercussions

Further Thoughts on (De)Colortiality / Walter D. Mignolo Mignolo, Walter D. 21

Location and Social Thought in the Black: A Testimony to Africana Intellectual Tradition / Kwame Nimako Nimako, Kwame 53

Race in Translation: The Red, Black, and White Atlantics / Robert Starn Starn, Robert, Ella Shohat Shohat, Ella 63

The Problem of the Human: Black Ontologies and "the Coloniality of Our Being" / Rinaldo Walcott Walcott, Rinaldo 93

Ethical Reassessments

Legacies of Enslavism and White Abjectorship / Sabine Broeck Broeck, Sabine 109

Europe's Colonialism, Decoloniality, and Racism / Marina Grzinic Grzinic, Marina 129

Countering the Legacies of Colonial Racism; Delinking and the Renewal of Humanism / Ina Kerner Kerner, Ina 145

Why the Postsocialist Cannot Speak: On Caucasian Blacks, Imperial Difference, and Decolonial Horizons / Madina Tlostanova Tlostanova, Madina 159

The Black Liberation Army and the Paradox of Political Engagement / Frank B. Wilderson III Wilderson, Frank B. III 175

Disciplinary Reconfigurations

Inequalities Unbound: Transregional Entanglements and the Creolization of Europe / Manuela Boatca Boatca, Manuela 211

Social Sciences and North-South-Asymmetries: Towards a Global Sociology / Sérgio Costa Costa, Sérgio 231

Decolonizing Gender-Gendering Decolonial Theory: Crosscurrents and Archaeologies / Gabriele Dietze Dietze, Gabriele 245

Queering Archives of Race and Slavery- Or, on Being Wilfully Untimely and Unhappy / Beatrice Michaelis Michaelis, Beatrice, Elahe Haschemi Yekani Yekani, Elahe Haschemi 269

Cultural Revisions

The Département Writes Back: On Chamoiseau's Rewrite of Robinson Crusoe / Kathleen Gyssels Gyssels, Kathleen 287

Interrogating the Interview as Genre: Five Cases over Two Hundred Years / Carsten Junker Junker, Carsten 311

Decolonizing Gender in the Academy: From Black Power and Black Consciousness to Black Rebellion / Rozena Maart Maart, Rozena 331

Rastafari and/as Decoloniality / Annika McPherson McPherson, Annika 353

Intersecting Identities and Epistemologies in Rozena Maart's "No Rosa, No District Six" / Jean-Paul Rocchi Rocchi, Jean-Paul 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783593501925

3593501929

OCLC:

895658343