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The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
Michael Onyebuchi Eze
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Description for The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
Hardcover. This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The author contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a 'defeatist' historicism. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374. 240 pages. This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The author contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a 'defeatist' historicism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBJH; JPH. Dimension: 214 x 148 x 18. Weight: 374.
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography ... Read more
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230623576
SKU
V9780230623576
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About Michael Onyebuchi Eze
MICHAEL ONYBUCHI EZE currently teaches postcolonial African studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany and is the Editor-in-Chief of The African Communitarian: A Journal of African Ethics, Social and Political Thought.
Reviews for The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
"Eze makes fresh interrogations into our inherited engagements with Africa within a geopolitical space and re-scribes our notions of Africa - a book that is compelling, timely, and well informed." - Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India