Stepping out of line in independent Conakry
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 centr...
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2021
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| description | 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 Condé and Condetto Nénékhaly-Camara. The conjuncture of post-independence Conakry can help us configure the place of literary and artistic non-conformism in the context of authoritarianism. It supposes moving from an aesthetics of independence to an aesthetics of dissent. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:aa2540ad-d64d-40d1-8434-5b0547ac38ba2023-01-20T11:43:46ZStepping out of line in independent ConakryJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:aa2540ad-d64d-40d1-8434-5b0547ac38baEnglishSymplectic ElementsIndiana University Press2021Reza, AIn 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 Condé and Condetto Nénékhaly-Camara. The conjuncture of post-independence Conakry can help us configure the place of literary and artistic non-conformism in the context of authoritarianism. It supposes moving from an aesthetics of independence to an aesthetics of dissent. |
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