Diplomatic Para-citations : Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation EPUB
by Sam Okoth Opondo
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Taking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement, Diplomatic Para-citations turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the ';genres of Man' that they privilege.
In an attempt to read ';the diplomatic' from the African postcolony, the book probes the injunction at the center of the law of genre that states that ';genres are not to be mixed.' This enables it to investigate the citational/recitational forms of knowledge and practices of recognition that reproduce the diplomatic and colonial order of things in the African context.
Through a reading of literature, philosophy, and a multiplicity of everyday practices in Africa and its diasporas, Sam Okoth Opondo explores amateur diplomatic practices that provide a counterforce to laws that prescribe faithfulness to a norm/form while proscribing the mixing of genres.
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- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date:09/02/2022
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- ISBN:9781786615862
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- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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