Cultural Translation and the African Self a (Post)colonial Case Study

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ID3343585
AutoresSimon Gikandi (0009-0003-3722-3152, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen3
Número3
Páginas355-375
Fecha de publicación2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterventions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698010127089
OpenAlexW4250471287
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas11

This article explores what it means to locate the African subject at the intersection between colonial governmentality and the realm of subjective desires. It discusses the process by which Africans cultivated their identity as modern subjects both within and against the institutions of colonial rule. Using one unique colonial subject (Jomo Kenyatta) as its case study, the essay tries to understand what happens when we read Africa - and the African - through acts of cultural translation and negotiation, through a lexicon that emerged not simply as the opposition between colonial modernity and African traditionalism, but one produced at that liminal scene where the self becomes the other and the lines between the two are blurred or folded. The central concern of the article is the movement of African subjects through the anatomy of colonialism and their meticulous translation of colonial culture into the idiom of self-making

Aesthetics · Alterity · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Colonialism · Epistemology · Governmentality · Liminality · Linguistics · Modernity · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology

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