Postcolonial Subjectivities In Africa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856499545 ISBN 13: 9781856499545

Publisher: Zed Books, 2002

Synopsis

This book crosses the frontier of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront at the turn of the 21st century. The essays recognize postcolonies troubled by state decline and increasing exploitation, dispossession and marginalizaiton, but avoid Afro-pessimism's reduction of subjects to mere victims. This book opens a fresh field for comparative research and theory on postcolonial transformations in intersubjectivity.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Werbner is Professor of African Anthropology and Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research at the University of Manchester.

Review:

"Werbner's trilogy on identity, memory, and subjectivity has now become the most sustained anthropological enquiry into the nature of postcolonialism in Africa." --Richard Fardon, Professor of West African Anthropology in the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies

"[This book] is a lively collection of essays on a topic that could hardly be more timely or challenging. The volume features an impressive and diverse array of scholars, exploring questions of personhood, identity, and subjectivity in a range of concrete settings in contemporary Africa. It will be widely read and discussed, and will help scholars in several disciplines to understand questions of consciousness and identity in contemporary Africa in relation to their diverse and often difficult social and political-economic contexts." --James Ferguson, University of California, Irvine

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1856499545
• ISBN 13: 9781856499545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Werbner Richard