The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power

ISBN-13: 9780367544249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Anaïs Angelo

Opis

Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this book shows how biographical narratives shed light on alternative aspects of state power in African politics. It will be of interest to scholars working on the African postcolonial state, decolonization, gender studies, and biography writing.

Spis treści

Foreword. Fugitive freedoms, Grace A. Musila  Introduction, Anaïs Angelo  Part 1: Scales, borders and frameworks  Chapter 1. What are the boundaries of African political biography?, Martin Mourre, Ophélie Rillon, Alexis Roy  Chapter 2. Deconstructing heroic biography: Bibi Titi Mohamed, public history, and nation building, Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch  Chapter 3. Fighting for national liberation in Africa: pan-African itineraries and national settlements, Sakiko Nakao  Part 2: Autobiographies as construction sites of power  Chapter 4. Tactics of intervention: Manipulating the "problematic self" in Janet Kataaha Museveni's A Life, Marciana Nafula Were  Chapter 5. Between truth and inventions. How public commemorations recite the biography of Amílcar Cabral, Víctor Barros  Chapter 6. Exploring borderlines of power in and through the auto/biographies of Ronnie Kasrils, Birgit Englert  Part 3: Hide and seek: women, politics and biography writing  Chapter 7. "Frieda von Bülow and Bibi Titi Mohammed: (De)colonised feminism in Tanzania, Diana Maria Naetermann  Chapter 10. Silenced no more: Doria Shafik speaks, Nada Halloway  Chapter 8. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: A thwarted political destiny, Marianne Séverin  Chapter 9. Motherhood, and Sisterhood as alternative discourses of power  Postscriptum. Getting to grips with "political biographies", Kirsten Rüther

O autorze

Anaïs Angelo is a historian and currently a post-doctoral researcher at the　Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. She specializes in　Kenyan political history, with a focus on biography-writing,　presidential power and gender.