I’m right: race is at the center (of the colonial drama). Of course one knows this but my questions all started out with these novels being taught as examples of literary movements, the issues they raise not addressed at all, and with the fact that I assumed, from my education, that racism was something we’d … More More Mbembe
You see, I am right. Discerning race is something you must do to maintain the colonial gaze. It is really quite simple. Page 111:For the Black Man to be seen and for him to be identified as such, a veil must have already been placed over his face, making it a face “bereft of all … More Mbembe on vision (and more)
Eva Thompson compares Polish, Ukrainian and Russian literature. Book: Imperial Knowledge: Russian literature and Colonialism. Also, Troubadour Imperium: Pushkin to Solshenitsyn. Axel Gasquet – race and orientalism José Alvares Junos – Mater dolorosa, la idea de España en el XIX Routledge guide or anthology to the Iberian world in the colonial period – a view … More Things we were talking about in Lviv
Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that … More Mbembe on Foucault
The transnationalization of the Black condition was a constitutive moment for modernity, with the Atlantic serving as its incubator. After Independence, a class of Creole Whites asserted and consolidated their influence. Oldquestions of heterogeneity, difference, and liberty were once again posed, with new elites using the ideology of mestizaje to deny and disqualify the racial … More Reading Mbembe
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