Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume II: Across National Contexts

ISBN-13: 9783031428821 / Angielski

Esther Mavengano; Isaac Mhute

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualising the culture of deceit in the Sub-Saharan African political landscapes

Part I: Thematisation of  deceit and patronage in literary and sonic  narratives from the Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 2: The postcoloniality and decoloniality of Namibian literature since independence: a survey.

Chapter 3: Shades of the Herero/Nama genocide in Namibia: The postcoloniality of public discourses surrounding German responsibility and potential reparations for the 1900s Herero/Nama genocide

Chapter 4: Memorialising gender and childhood under the throes of Von Trotha’s extermination order: trauma, agency and survival in Serebov’s Mama Namibia

Chapter 5: Singing betrayal: The Zimbabwean and South African experience

Chapter 6: Towards Dealing with the Fear of Ethno-Religious and Linguistic Differences in Post-Colonial African Politics Using Literature

Part II: Dialectics and semiotics of  power, postcolonial  African  nationalism and deceit in the Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 7: The Native ‘Foreigners’ and dialectics of ‘Zimbabweanness’ and power in discourses of ‘Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo’ Brick upon Brick, sons and daughters of the soil let’s build ‘Our’ nation

Chapter 8: Political ‘Judases;’ and the Phobipoliticum’ of East African Migration Policies: Examining the Unfinished African Freedom Project

Chapter 9: The impact of legacies of the past on the emergence of conflict in postcolonial African politics

 Chapter 10: Tragic labels, catastrophic consequences: Africa and the colonial language burden

Chapter 11: Barbing Your Hair in Your Absence: The Solution that Birthed more Troubles for Postcolonial Africa

Part III:  Religious / philosophical dialoguing egocentric cultures and (mis)representation in the  Sub-Saharan African politics

Chapter 12: Evangelising Nigeria in the culture of violent conflicts

Chapter 13: Iscariotean Existential Protuberances and the Demise of Emancipatory Post-Colonial Pan-African States in Sub-Saharan

Chapter 14: African traditional religion and (mis)representations in postcolonial political terrain in Nigeria

Chapter 15: Religionization as a misrepresentation in postcolonial Nigerian democratic politics: A critical discourse Analysis

Chapter 16: The quest for power knows no brother: ‘Judas Iscariot’s Culture of deceit,’ in the post-coup Zimbabwean politics   

Part III: Ethnicity,  fear of difference and deceit in the postcolonial  Sub-Saharan African politics

Chapter 17: Judas’ syndrome and the quest for Ziibalogzii philosophy in the Nigerian political system

Chapter 18: Judaistic notions in post-colonial African politics imperatives for refocusing African politics for development

Chapter 19: Cyclical ecologies of white and black political mutations: The reincarnation of colonial libido dominandi

Chapter 20: A culture of deceit and human rights violations in postcolonial African politics

Chapter 21: Conclusion

O autorze

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology, and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa and a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Technology University Dresden, Germany.

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

Blurb

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. In an attempt to produce a nuanced and multifaceted academic dialoguing platform, the two volumes have a particular focus on the aspects of treachery, fear of difference (oppositional politics), and discourses/semiotics of mis/self-representation. The major aim of the proposed volumes is to contribute toward the often problematized conversations about the unfolding (post)colonial Sub-Saharan world which is topical in decolonial and Pan-African studies. The volumes seek to place political thinking and postcolonial political systems under the scholarly gaze with the view to highlight and enhance the participation of African cross-disciplinary scholarship in the postcolonial political processes of the continent. Most significantly, it is through such probing of the limitations of our own disciplinary perspectives which can help us appreciate the complexity of the postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology, and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa and a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Technology University Dresden, Germany.

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.