Title: Postcoloniality - decoloniality - black critique :
Authors: Broeck, Sabine,; Junker, Carsten
Date: 2014
Publisher: Campus Verlag,
Physical description: 398 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: Can Western modernity be analysed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generally.
Contents: Epistemic repercussions. Further thoughts on (de)coloniality / Walter D. Mignolo -- Location and social thought in the black : a testimony to Africana intellectual tradition / Kwame Nimako -- Race in translation : the red, black, and white Atlantics / Robert Stam, Ella Shohat -- The problem of the human : black ontologies and "the coloniality of our being" / Rinaldo Walcott -- -- Ethical reassessments. Legacies of enslavism and white abjectorship / Sabine Broeck -- Europe's colonialism, decoloniality, and racism / Marina Grzinic -- Countering the legacies of colonial racism : delinking and the renewal of humanism / Ina Kerner -- Why the postsocialist cannot speak : on Caucasian blacks, imperial difference, and decolonial horizons / Madina Tlostanova -- The Black Liberation Army and the paradox of political engagement / Frank B. Wilderson III -- -- Disciplinary reconfigurations. Inequalities unbound : transregional entanglements and the Creolization of Europe / Manuela Boatca -- Social sciences and north-south-asymmetries : towards a global sociology / Sergio Costa -- Decolonizing gender - gendering decolonial theory : crosscurrents and archaeologies / Gabriele Dietze -- Queering archives of race and slavery - or, on being wilfully untimely and unhappy / Beatrice Michaelis, Elahe Haschemi Yekani -- -- Cultural revisions. The departement writes back : on Chamoiseau's rewrite of Robinson Crusoe / Kathleen Gyssels -- Interrogating the interview as genre : five cases over two hundred years / Carsten Junker -- Decolonizing gender in the academy : from black power and black consciousness to black rebellion / Rozena Maart -- Rastafari and / as decoloniality / Annika McPherson -- Intersecting identities and epistemologies in Rozena Maart's "No Rosa, no district six" / Jean-Paul Rocchi.
Subject headings (LCSH): Africa--Colonization--History--Public opinion.; Africa--In literature; Black people in literature; Black people--Race identity; Black people--Race identity--Western countries--History.; Colonization--Foreign public opinion.; Decolonization--Europe--History.; Decolonization--Europe.; Europe--Colonies--History--Public opinion.; Europe--Foreign public opinion.; Postcolonialism--Europe--History.; Postcolonialism--Europe.; Racism--Europe; Racism--Europe--History.