The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-38491-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography not only stifles the overall socio-political imagination of contemporary Africa but offers a dogmatic blueprint for politics of domination. Eze argues that a chance for an African Renaissance is dependent on review mechanisms of African historiography.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eze, M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ankersmit, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The 'Invention' of Africa: Contested Terrains Post-colonial Displacements Africanism: a history of Histories Beyond a History by Analogy Cult of Personalities and Politics of Domination Towards an African Renaissance

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL ONYBUCHI EZE currently teaches postcolonial African studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany and is the Editor-in-Chief of The African Communitarian: A Journal of African Ethics, Social and Political Thought.