Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of AfricaState University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 251 páginas Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly entered into critical conversations with the metropole. Focusing on the period between World War I and the present, "the age of irony," this book explores the political and symbolic invention of Muslim Africa and its often contradictory representations. Through a critical analysis of irony and resistance in works by writers who come from nomadic areas around the Sahara—Mustapha Tlili (Tunisia), Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal), and Tayeb Salih (Sudan)—Laura Rice offers a fresh perspective that accounts for both the influence of the Western, instrumental imaginary, and the Islamic, holistic one. |
Contenido
| 1 | |
Race Memory and the Lessons of War | 45 |
Reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane | 79 |
Of Home as Heterotopia in Salih Tlili and Mokeddem | 125 |
The Ends of Irony | 175 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 225 |
SUNY seriesExplorations in Postcolonial Studies | 241 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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Página 18 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing pecuh'ar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing...
Página 57 - I was responsible at the same time for my body, for my race, for my ancestors. I subjected myself to an objective examination, I discovered my blackness, my ethnic characteristics; and I was battered down by tom-toms, cannibalism, intellectual deficiency, fetichism, racial defects, slave-ships, and above all else, above all: "Sho
Página 125 - This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought - our thought, the thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography...
Página 19 - I have outlined. It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
Página 10 - Irony divides the flow of temporal experience into a past that is pure mystification and a future that remains harassed forever by a relapse within the inauthentic.
Página 10 - The settler and the native are old acquaintances. In fact, the settler is right when he speaks of knowing "them" well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence.
Página 15 - But be that as it may, any complete statement about motives will offer some kind of answers to these five questions: what was done (act), when or where it was done (scene), who did it (agent), how he did it (agency) and why (purpose).
Página 146 - There, rocky walls, green and black to the north, pink and lavender to the south, marked the frontier of eternal summer. He had been named to a post farther north, on the plateau itself. In the beginning, the solitude and the silence had been hard for him on these wastelands peopled only by stones. Occasionally, furrows suggested cultivation, but they had been dug to uncover a certain kind of stone good for building. The only plowing here was to harvest rocks. Elsewhere a thin layer of soil accumulated...
Página 197 - Kenyan," and so on. There is a peculiar way in which all these other histories tend to become variations on a master narrative that could be called "the history of Europe.