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- catalog abstract "In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition. Addressing fundamental issues of political violence, the negation of authority in public life, and peaceful change to multi-party politics, their analyses distinguish the varied impact of generational struggles, ethnicity and nationalism. Throughout, they shed new light on images, emblems of identity, social landscapes and boundaries of belonging. The book theorises the salience of the postmodern for the postcolonial and the postapartheid; and with actual case studies, explores why postcolonial studies has to enunciate and interpret the distinctive languages of identity politics in all the cultural richness of their specific metaphors. It asks whether the very idea of the postcolonial conceals the continued dependence of African countries. Is the postcolonial thus merely a neo-colonial mystification, a Eurocentric product of Western scholarship in collusion with Western imperialism?".
- catalog contributor b10241229.
- catalog contributor b10241230.
- catalog contributor b10241231.
- catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonial influence.".
- catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions 1960-".
- catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 1960-".
- catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions 1960-".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition. Addressing fundamental issues of political violence, the negation of authority in public life, and peaceful change to multi-party politics, their analyses distinguish the varied impact of generational struggles, ethnicity and nationalism. Throughout, they shed new light on images, emblems of identity, social landscapes and boundaries of belonging.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Multiple identities, plural arenas / Richard Werbner -- The African crisis : context and interpretation / Patrick Chabal -- A lost generation? : youth identity and state decay in West Africa / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Postcolonialism, power and identity : local and global perspectives from Zaire / Filip De Boeck -- Between God and Kamuzu : the transition to multiparty politics in central Malawi / Harri Englund -- The potentials of boundaries in South Africa : steps towards a theory of the social edge / Robert Thornton -- "Producing" respect : the "proper woman" in postcolonial Kampala / Jessica A. Ogden -- Witchcraft, violence and identity : different trajectories in postcolonial Cameroon / Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere -- Identity, alterity and ambiguity in a Nigerian community : competing definitions of "true" Islam / Adeline Masquelier -- Contested authorities and the politics of perception : deconstructing the study of religion in Africa / Rijk van Dijk and Peter Pels.".
- catalog description "The book theorises the salience of the postmodern for the postcolonial and the postapartheid; and with actual case studies, explores why postcolonial studies has to enunciate and interpret the distinctive languages of identity politics in all the cultural richness of their specific metaphors. It asks whether the very idea of the postcolonial conceals the continued dependence of African countries. Is the postcolonial thus merely a neo-colonial mystification, a Eurocentric product of Western scholarship in collusion with Western imperialism?".
- catalog extent "xi, 292 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Postcolonial identities in Africa.".
- catalog identifier "1856494152 (hardback)".
- catalog identifier "1856494160 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Postcolonial identities in Africa.".
- catalog isPartOf "Postcolonial encounters".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Atlantic Highlands,N.J. : Zed Books,".
- catalog relation "Postcolonial identities in Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonial influence.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan.".
- catalog subject "320.967 20".
- catalog subject "JQ1879.A15 P69 1996".
- catalog subject "Political stability Africa, Sub-Saharan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Multiple identities, plural arenas / Richard Werbner -- The African crisis : context and interpretation / Patrick Chabal -- A lost generation? : youth identity and state decay in West Africa / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Postcolonialism, power and identity : local and global perspectives from Zaire / Filip De Boeck -- Between God and Kamuzu : the transition to multiparty politics in central Malawi / Harri Englund -- The potentials of boundaries in South Africa : steps towards a theory of the social edge / Robert Thornton -- "Producing" respect : the "proper woman" in postcolonial Kampala / Jessica A. Ogden -- Witchcraft, violence and identity : different trajectories in postcolonial Cameroon / Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere -- Identity, alterity and ambiguity in a Nigerian community : competing definitions of "true" Islam / Adeline Masquelier -- Contested authorities and the politics of perception : deconstructing the study of religion in Africa / Rijk van Dijk and Peter Pels.".
- catalog title "Postcolonial identities in Africa / edited by Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger.".
- catalog type "text".