Decolonisation of Materialities or Mater
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Decolonisation of Materialities or Mater

Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa

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Decolonisation of Materialities or Mater

Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Decolonisation of Materialities or Mater by Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira, Artwell Nhemachena,Jairos Kangira in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9789956763948
eBook ISBN
9789956764570
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. About the Contributors
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Chapter One - Materialities and the Resilient Global Frontierisation of Africa: An Introduction
  8. Chapter Two - Phantasia and the Rhetoric of Inaugural Speeches: Cases of Samora Machel (1975), Robert Mugabe (1980), Sam Nujoma (1990) and Nelson Mandela (1994)
  9. Chapter Three - Materialities and Human Rights in Contemporary African Higher Education: the Case of the “Fees Must Fall Movements” in Southern African Universities
  10. Chapter Four - Conjugating Materialities and Symbols in Contemporary Africa?The Case of the Statue of King Nghunghunyani, South Africa
  11. Chapter Five - Materialities and Symbols of Zimbabwe’s Civil Religion
  12. Chapter Six - Un-naming the Nameables: An Ecocritical Perspective of Operation Murambatsvina in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
  13. Chapter Seven - Gendered Experiences: Land Grabs and the De-Feminization of Africa’s Agrarian Futures
  14. Chapter Eight - Reconfiguring the African Jindwi Traditional Drums in a Post- colonial Mutare Museum Setting, Zimbabwe
  15. Chapter Nine - A Contextual Analysis of Small-Scale Mining: Interrogating the Question of Materialities in Namibia
  16. Chapter Ten - A Contrastive (Re)mapping of Blacks, Land and Nature in Colonial Rhodesian and Contemporary Postcolonial Zimbabwean Fiction
  17. Chapter Eleven - “Decolonising” and Democratising Pedagogical Translation in Foreign Language Teaching: The Role of Mediation as Strategy
  18. Chapter Twelve - The Literary Constructions of the Metaphysical in the African Milieu
  19. Back cover