Sam Okoth Opondo

Diplomatic Para-citations

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 662
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1095g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615848
• ISBN-10: 1786615843
• Artikelnr.: 59999663

Autorenporträt

Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies. He teaches courses on comparative politics, settler colonialism, postcolonial diplomatic cultures and African cities. He co-edited (with Michael J. Shapiro) The New Violent Cartography: Geo-Analysis After the Aesthetic Turn, (Routledge, 2012) and has written journal articles and book chapters on the often-overlooked amateur diplomacies of everyday life, postcolonial cities, aesthetics, ethics and cultural translation in Africa.

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. Speculum/Speculations/On Birthing Tomorrow (Poem)
Part Five: Stagings/Falsifications
Chapter 17. Cinema-Body-Thought (Essay)
Chapter 18. Cinema is Our 'Night School' (Essay)
Chapter 19. Stagecraft/Statecraft/Mancraft
Chapter 20. Abusive Fidelities: Diplomacy and/as Translation
Epilogue: St. Augustine's Phallus: Love, Diplomacy, and the Will-to-Convert