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This chapter is a journey of thought exploring decolonial critique as a situated practice while thinking through exilic consciousness and its constitutive conditions. I begin by reflecting on decolonialities to gesture toward varied forms of decolonial projects that need to be situated, given that each location generates different sets of questions/problems that demand different answers. In this way, I reconfigure the exilic condition, and the space of displacement in general, as a plurilingual space that unsettles various colonial forms of epistemic monolingualism predicated on the selfsufficiency of thought. To this end, I reflect on the potentiality of exilic consciousness to generate decolonial critique when thinking from/about the Global South. Finally, this chapter demonstrates the significance of acknowledging the diverse locations and trajectories of decolonial critique and the plurality of thought embedded within the exilic intellectual formation that can potentially undo colonial forms of knowledge-making and being in the world.
Anarchival practises : the Clanwilliam Arts Project as re-imagining custodianship of the past
(2023)
Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the 'anarchive', a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present, bringing into view strategies to facilitate remembering beyond the colonial archive.
Im vorliegenden Artikel soll nachgewiesen werden, dass die erzählerische Unzuverlässigkeit in Shida Bazyars "Drei Kameradinnen" passförmig ist zu einer im 21. Jahrhundert in Mitteleuropa diskursiv formulierten Unerfassbarkeit und Unfassbarkeit der Welt und des Selbst sowie zu einem Misstrauen gegenüber Objektivität und der Objektivier- und Vermittelbarkeit des eigenen Standpunkts. Leitende These dabei ist, dass fantastische Exkurse, Selbstkorrekturen, Leerstellen, die Gleichzeitigkeit mehrerer Wahrheiten, Realitätsreferenzen und deren Brechung sowie Fiktionsbrechungen tragfester auf eine Realität referieren, die als unerfassbar gilt, als eine geschlossene Romanhandlung es hätte erreichen können.
This essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and the Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon a priori structures (the worldsystem) and prioritisation of the literary registration of inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain the dissident spirit of postcolonialism ought to demonstrate a shared equality. By reference to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay sets out the case for an alternative to world-systems critique: one that maintains literature's potential for creating new forms of resistance, dissent, and, crucially, equality.
This chapter explores the intrinsic relationship between weather/weathering and the imaginary of the sea, which features in the work of artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Bispo was a black man who spent most of his life in psychiatric institutions. There is an important interplay between his psychotic deliriums and the production of hundreds of objects, many of them ships or forms that relate to the sea. These objects open up a discussion on decoloniality as they are embedded with marks left by the transatlantic slave trade.
Steffen Kopetzkys im Jahre 2015 erschienener Roman "Risiko" kann in der Tat als ein historischer Abenteuerroman gesehen werden. Bei genauerer Betrachtung seines Erzählgegenstandes wird deutlich, dass der Roman eine am Anfang des Ersten Weltkriegs angesiedelte deutsche Expedition nach Afghanistan behandelt, bei der das Osmanische Reich ebenfalls mitgewirkt hat. Das Ziel der Deutschen bestand hierbei darin, die Muslime in dieser Region und vor allem in Indien zu einem Aufstand zu bewegen, um auf diese Weise eine Überlegenheit gegenüber den Briten zu begründen. Entlang der Thematisierung einer in Vergessenheit geratenen historischen Facette der deutschen Kolonialpolitik legt Kopetzkys Roman, so die These der vorliegenden Arbeit, unterschiedliche Facetten des deutschen Kolonialismus frei und bietet vor allem anhand der Darstellung dieser exzentrischen Expedition in den Orient eine dezidiert kritische Perspektive auf die kolonialen Machtdiskurse des Westens. Vor allem die kuriose Verfasstheit des erzählten Gegenstandes, den der Roman fiktional bearbeitet, stellt eine produktive Grundlage für einen Perspektivenwechsel im Sinne einer postkolonial orientierten Literaturwissenschaft dar. Nach einer kurzen Skizzierung der theoretisch-methodischen Grundannahmen der postkolonialen Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Erläuterung des Begriffs 'postkolonial' fokussiert die vorliegende Arbeit zunächst die Fiktionalisierung der Diskurse des Kolonialismus und Orientalismus und nimmt dabei auf die Ansätze von Edward W. Said, Homi K. Bhabha und Gayatri Ch. Spivak Bezug. Anschließend konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die 'subalternen' bzw. postkolonialen Blicköffnungen, die mit der Darstellung der Niedermayer-Expedition verknüpft sind.
Sömürgeciliğin farklı bakış açılarıyla sorunsallaştırıldığı postkolonyal düşünce, kimi yazarları derin bir etki altına alarak söz konusu yaklaşımlara ilişkin düşüncelerini yazınsal yapıtlarında yansıtma olarak açığa çıkmıştır. Bu yazarlardan biri olan çağdaş Alman Edebiyatının en önemli isimlerinden Uwe Timm, 1978 yılında kaleme aldığı ve 1904-1907 yılları arasında geçen sürede Almanya'nın söz konusu dönemde sömürgesi olan Güney Afrika'da yaşamakta olan yerliler ile Almanlar arasındaki mücadelenin konulaştırıldığı Morenga adlı tarihsel romanında kurguladığı Gottschalk karakterinin "Beyaz Kıta"dan "Kara Kıta"ya gelişiyle birlikte kişisel ve sosyal yaşamına ilişkin yaşadığı değişimleri gözler önüne sermiştir. Polonya asıllı İngiliz yazar Joseph Conrad ise, 1899 yılında yazdığı Karanlığın Yüreği adlı yapıtında, "Kara Kıta"ya bir iş için görevlendirilen Marlow'un kıtanın derinliklerinde beyazların yerlilere uyguladığı işkencelerle birlikte deneyimlediklerini anlatılaştırır. Bu bağlamda, postkolonyal kuram ışığında karşılaştırmalı ve metin içkin yöntemle irdelenecek olan söz konusu çalışmada öncelikle postkolonyalizmin bir kuram olarak ortaya çıkışı ve postkolonyal edebiyatın sınırlarına değinilecek, söz konusu iki yapıtta, Afrika topraklarına görevlendirilen başkahramanların kıtada kaldıkları süre boyunca geçirdiği değişim irdelenecek, bir sonuç değerlendirmesi yapılarak çalışma sonlandırılacaktır.
Volker Woltersdorff's essay 'Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History: Queer Historiography, Post-Slavery Subjectivities, and Sadomasochism in Isaac Julien's "The Attendant"' discusses the controversial concept of wholeness in historiography with regard to the fascination with past horrors and the desire to do justice to their victims who retain a ghostly presence. The essay retraces how this commitment produces a dilemma, as it can result either in the aspiration to historical wholeness as full memoralization or alternatively in the radical rejection of wholeness as an impossible healing. Employing Elizabeth Freeman's notion of 'erotohistoriography', Woltersdorff introduces affect into the work of historiography in order to find an escape from the dilemmatic impasse between history's wholeness as pacified reconciliation and as ongoing catastrophe along the lines of Walter Benjamin. Sadomasochism is presented as a practice that may correspond most adequately to the paradoxical affect caused by traumatic history that continues to haunt the present. Indeed, re-enactments of historical oppression and violence occur frequently within the BDSM community. However, what distinguishes them from 'living history' re-enactments is their potential to modify affective attachments to history by altering the historical script. The essay elaborates this potential through Isaac Julien's 1993 short film "The Attendant", which, in a kind of queer re-enactment, overwrites the memory of colonial chattel slavery by a sadomasochistic encounter of a black guardian and a white visitor in a museum dedicated to the history of slavery. The film raises the ethical and political question of how to relate affectively to the legacy and ongoing presence of racism. Against this backdrop, the author argues that, through the BDSM scenario and its changes to the historical script, Julien's film represents and promotes a paradoxical way to perform both the memorialization and the forgetting of past horrors and pleasures. Here, historical wholeness acquires a conflicting double meaning of both achieving completeness and restoring integrity. Woltersdorff concludes by interpreting "The Attendant" as urging a utopian perspective, produced by the tension between the impossibility of history's wholeness and the necessary, reparative desire for it. The article concludes by highlighting the paradox that Julien's film shows wholeness 'to be impossible and yet necessary' and 'expresses a necessary desire made impossible'. While the essay explicitly engages with the figure of haunting, one could perhaps speak here also of plasticity insofar as the contradictory conjunction of remembering and forgetting seems to rely on a malleability of affects and on producing an affective economy that sustains the fantasmatic remembrance of a painful past through paradoxical pleasure but breaks with any pleasure derived from real inequality, injustice, or suffering imparted non-consensually.