現代アフリカにおける歴史の政治学 The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa

Eze, Michael Onyebuchi/ Ankersmit, Frank (FRW)

Palgrave Macmillan（2010/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230623576
• DDC分類 960.072

基本説明

The book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The author contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a 'defeatist' historicism.

Full Description

This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography not only stifles the overall socio-political imagination of contemporary Africa but offers a dogmatic blueprint for politics of domination. Eze argues that a chance for an African Renaissance is dependent on review mechanisms of African historiography.

Contents

The 'Invention' of Africa: Contested Terrains Post-colonial Displacements Africanism: a history of Histories Beyond a History by Analogy Cult of Personalities and Politics of Domination Towards an African Renaissance