Mutale Mulenga Kaunda

Postcolonial Imbusa (eBook, ePUB)

Bemba Women's Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imbusa, a rite of passage for marriage among the Bemba people of Zambia, is one of the most salient and resilient rituals that shapes and informs the private and public life. It is one of the most formidable cultural forces that defines behaviors and determines everyday relations between women and men at home, church, and work. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda offers a glimpse into the lived imbusa and how the teaching proposes women's agency and subjectivity. Mulenga Kaunda argues that the salience and resilience of imbusa, despite the contact with various cultures and religions, makes it a critical feminist decolonial resource for constructing life-giving postcolonial womanism. Through combined interviews and philosophical analysis, this book discovers how the knowledge of imbusa was produced and how such knowledge constitutes postcolonial and decolonial nego-feminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666926255
• Artikelnr.: 68428294

Autorenporträt

Mutale Mulenga Kaunda is postdoctoral research fellow at the Desmond Tutu Center in Religion and Social Justice at the University of Western Cape.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An African Feminist Postcolonial Appraisal of Bemba Women's
Marital Agency in Imbusa
Chapter One: Coloniality of Imbusa
Chapter Two: Locating Bemba Women on The Copperbelt Province
Chapter Three: Precolonial Indigenous Imbusa Teachings
Chapter Four: Post colonizing Imbusa: Reclaiming and Reconstituting Bemba
Women's Agency
Chapter Five: Bemba Women and Imbusa in Corporate or Public Spheres
Chapter Six: Bemba Women Imbusa and Marriage
Conclusion: Bemba Women's Agency Between Tradition and Modernity
Bibliography
About the Author