Stepping out of Line in Independent Conakry

Bibliographic Data

ID9251108
AuthorsAlexandra Reza (0000-0001-5175-4978, corresponding author), Reza Reza
Year2021
Volume51
Issue4
Pages137
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.08
OpenAlexW3179857512
LanguageEN
References cited14

In this paper, I take the time-space of post-independence Conakry as an important site in the history of articulations and rearticulations of culture and politics that have rightly sustained critical interest in the conjuncture of decolonization. Such a manoeuvre might lead us to challenge the centripetal tendencies of postcolonial studies. In this article, though, I ask only this: how does taking Conakry at this time seriously as a site of cultural production modulate understandings of cultural production in the conjuncture of decolonization? My answer to that question centres on dissidence, through a discussion of the work of Maryse Cond and Condetto Nnkhaly-Camara. The conjuncture of post-independence Conakry can help us configure the place of literary and artistic non-conformism in the context of authoritarianism

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Authoritarianism · Context (archaeology) · Decolonization · Democracy · Dissent · Independence (probability theory) · Media studies · Political dissent · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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