Dissolving Master Narratives

Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Herausgeber: Doyle, Laura; Gikandi, Simon; Wa Githinji, Mwangi

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Produktbeschreibung

The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032848822
• ISBN-10: 1032848820
• Artikelnr.: 72653486

Autorenporträt

Laura Doyle is Professor Emerita at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Founding Co-Director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP/) with Mwangi wa G¿th¿nji. Book publications include Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labors, and the Literary Arts of Alliance (Wallerstein Prize); Bordering on the Body (Leeson Prize); Freedom's Empire; and two edited collections: Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture; and Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Doyle has received a Leverhulme Research Professorship (UK); a Rockefeller Fellowship in Intercultural Scholarship in Afro-American Studies (Princeton University); and two ACLS Fellowships. Mwangi wa G¿th¿nji is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding Co-Director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project with Laura Doyle. Publications include Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: a study of inequality and development in Kenya; the co-authored An Employment Targeted Plan for Kenya ; and numerous articles. He has served in multiple editorial roles and consulted with agencies and NGOs, including the UNDP, Economic Commission for Africa, Africa Center for Economic Transformation, and the Society for International Development. Simon Gikandi is Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University and Chair of the English Department. His most recent book, Slavery and the Culture of Taste, was awarded both the MLA James Russell Lowell Award and the Melville J. Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association. In addition to numerous articles, his several books include The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (Volume 11 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English). Gikandi has served as President of the Modern Language Association and as editor of PMLA, its official journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Dissolving Master Narratives Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction: Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi, Mwangi wa G
th
nji 1. The Afterlife of Colonialism in Narratives of Civilizational Collapse: The Maya Region of the Americas Patricia A. McAnany 1. Multiple Temporalities in Nineteenth-Century Ibero-America: Questioning Temporalization and the Persistence of the Past Nadia R. Altschul 1. "Unmodern" Subjects: Africa, Fetishism, and European Self-fashioning Simon Gikandi 1. Abjuration and Subjectivity: Palmares, Quilombolas, and Republicanism Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui 1. Race and Renaissance Historiographies Maghan Keita 1. The Siy
sa-Adab Orientation and the Secular Ethos of Political Discourse Hayrettin Yücesoy 1. Science in the Mirror of the Qur'an: Islam and Rationalism in the East African Context Alamin Mazrui 1. "Literature Translated": The Moral Grounds of Comparison in Ottoman Letters Mehtap Ozdemir 1. Theorizing the Horizon: From World to Worlds to Planetarity Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Asha Nadkarni, and Malcolm Sen Afterword 1. 'Worlds of Difference' /Different World(s) - Reading Decolonial Reconstellations Within and Beyond the Pluriverse Scarlett Cornelissen