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Diplomatic Para-citations
Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation
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2022
Summary
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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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-584-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-586-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
619
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Prenegotiations No access
The Ghosts of Eugene-Terre’-Blanche No access
Introduction: Laws and Lore of Genre No access
1 Apocalypsis: Para-citing and Becoming Malcolm X No access
2 Counting with Sister Hypatia No access
3 Philopoesis and/as Resistance No access
4 Postscripts No access
5 Biocolonial and Racial Entanglements No access
6 “Becoming with” HIV/AIDS No access
7 Inner-Wares No access
8 Inter-city Half-Lives No access
9 In Extremis: Diplomacies, Extremism, and Enmity No access
10 Letters to Yvonne: Words and/as Worlds No access
11 Fishers-of-Men: A Lamentation No access
12 Counting Silently/Discretely: A Dirge No access
13 Childhood, Redemption, and the Prosaics of Waiting No access
14 Children of the Sand and Sea No access
15 Migricide, Hospitality, and Horror No access
16 Speculum/Speculations/On Birthing Tomorrow No access
17 Cinema-Body-Thought No access
18 Cinema Is Our “Night School” No access
19 Stagecraft/Statecraft/Mancraft No access
20 Abusive Fidelities: Diplomacy and/as Translation No access
Epilogue: St. Augustine’s Phallus: Love, Diplomacy, and the Will-to-Convert No access
