Sam Okoth Opondo

Diplomatic Para-citations (eBook, ePUB)

Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement, Diplomatic Para-citations turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the 'genres of Man' that they privilege. 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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 662
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786615862
• Artikelnr.: 63254775

Autorenporträt

Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Vassar College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Epiparasites/Introductory Fragments
The Ghosts of Eugene-Terre-Blanche
Introduction: Laws and Lore of Genre
Chapter 1. Apocalypsis: Para-citing and Becoming Malcolm X
Chapter 2. Counting with Sister Hypatia
Part Two: Bios/Entanglements
Chapter 3. Philopoesis and/as Resistance (Essay)
Chapter 4. Postscripts (Short Story)
Chapter 5. Biocolonial and Racial Entanglements (Essay)
Chapter 6. Becoming with' HIV/AIDS (Essay)
Part Three: Home/Abjection
Chapter 7. Inner-wares (Novella)
Chapter 8. Inter-city Half-lives (Essay)
Chapter 9. In Extremis: Diplomacies, Extremism, and Enmity
Chapter 10. Letters to Yvonne: Words and/as Worlds (Letters)
Chapter 11. Fishers-of-Men: A Lamentation (Poem)
Chapter 12. Counting Silently/Discretely: A Dirge
Part Four: Speculations/Hospitalities
Chapter 13. Childhood, Redemption, and the Prosaics of Waiting (Essay)
Chapter 14. Children of the Sand and Sea (Poem)
Chapter 15. Migricide, Hospitality, and Horror (Essay)
Chapter 16. Speculu