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Diplomatic Para-citations
eBook - Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation, Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
ISBN/EAN: 9781786615862
Umbreit-Nr.: 5168791
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 662 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 09.02.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><span>Taking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement,</span><span>Diplomatic Para-citations</span><span> turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the genres of Man that they privilege.</span></p><p><span>In an attempt to read the diplomatic from the African postcolony, the book probes the injunction at the center of the law of genre that states that genres are not to be mixed. This enables it to investigate the citational/recitational forms of knowledge and practices of recognition that reproduce the diplomatic and colonial order of things in the African context.</span></p><p><span>Through a reading of literature, philosophy, and a multiplicity of everyday practices in Africa and its diasporas, Sam Okoth Opondo explores amateur diplomatic practices that provide a counterforce to laws that prescribe faithfulness to a norm/form while proscribing the mixing of genres.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>This book combines poetry, prose, and theory in ways that speak to each other to offer new insight to the connectedness of the colonial world.</span></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Vassar College.</span></p>