TY  - BOOK
A2  - Nhemachena, Artwell
A2  - Kangira, Jairos
T1  - Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation : Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa
N2  - Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing connections, relationships and associations between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about separation, alienation, and disconnections between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment materialises in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60467
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-604676
SN  - 9956-764-57-4
SN  - 978-9956-764-57-0
PB  - Langaa RPCIG
CY  - Bamenda, Cameroon
ER  -