Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony: The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley's Jamaica and Nelson Mandela's South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367372767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 150 str.

Greg A. Graham

Opis

This book links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, engaging with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Democratic Political Tragedy  2. Thinking with Hegel: Experience, Conflict, and Reversal  3. Creolizing Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy  4. Manley’s Jamaica: The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism   5. Mandela and The Tragedy of the Post-Apartheid state  6. The Aftermath of Tragedy: Patterson, Mbeki, and The Neoliberal Age (Postscript)  Conclusion

O autorze

Greg A. Graham is Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His areas of specialization include Africana Political Thought, African Politics, Caribbean Politics, Diasporic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Classical Political Theory, and Modern Political Theory