Concurrences in Postcolonial Research

Perspectives, Methodologies, and Engagements

Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta

• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783838271545
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant Western narrations about colonial power relationships are challenged by alternative sources such as heritage objects and oral traditions, enabling the voice of minorities or subaltern groups to be heard. Concurrences in Postcolonial Research is about capturing multiple voices and multiple temporalities. As such, it is both a relational and dynamic methodology and a theoretical perspective that undergirds the multiple workings of power, uncovering asymmetrical power relations. Interdisciplinary in nature, this anthology is the outcome of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the multiple temporality of postcolonial issues and engagements in various places across the world.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Towards Global Connections and Multiple Entanglement
• Concurrent Subjectivities and Coevalness in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother
• Autofiction as a Postcolonial Strategy: Guilherme Mendes da Silva’s The Moods of Mister Utac (De humeuren van meneer Utac) and Junot Díaz’ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Moments of Suffering, Pain and Resilience: Somali Refugees’ Memories of Home and Journeys to Exile
• Homosexuality as “UnAfrican”: Heteronormativity, Power, and Ambivalence in Cameroon
• Concurrent Contestations: Framing, and Naming the ‘Queer’ in Art from Africa
• Queer Visibility and Visual Resistance against Homophobia at Dak’Art, The Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary African Art in Dakar 2014
• Entangled Voices, Lived Songs. Mwambwambwa, a Cokwe Song recorded in 1954 at Colonial Lunda, Angola
• A Contradictory Encounter: Swedish Missionaries and the Local Population in the Congo Free State
• “Lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you”: The Psychic Impact of Concurrent Narratives in the Hawaiian Missionary Legacy
• Policy Lending or Imposition: An Assessment of the World Bank’s Education Policy influence on Development in Africa
• Beyond the Social Sciences
• Copyright