Diplomatic Para-citations
Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.Taking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement, Diplomatic Para-citations turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the ‘genres of Man’ that they privilege. In an attempt to read ‘the diplomatic’ from the African postcolony, the book probes the injunction at the center of the law of genre that states that “genres are not to be mixed.” This enables it to investigate the citational/recitational forms of knowledge and practices of recognition that reproduce the diplomatic and colonial order of things in the African context. Through a reading of literature, philosophy, and a multiplicity of everyday practices in Africa and its diasporas, Sam Okoth Opondo explores amateur diplomatic practices that provide a counterforce to laws that prescribe faithfulness to a norm/form while proscribing the mixing of genres.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2022-02-09
- Mått160 x 228 x 41 mm
- Vikt1 071 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieKilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
- Antal sidor662
- FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN9781786615848