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Steve Biko
Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
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2016
Summary
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of events, something that is popular in the literature of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness. Rather, a theoretical imagination and conceptual invention is engaged upon in order to situate Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. The theoretical imagination and conceptual invention fosters an interpretive approach and an ongoing critique that cannot reach any epistemic closure. This is what decolonial meditations are all about, opening up new vistas of thought and new modes of critique informed by epistemic breaks from “empirical absolutism” that reduce Biko to an epistemic catalogue. It is in Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness that the black subject is engaged not only in the politics of criticism for its own sake, but philosophy of existence.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1818-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1819-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
213
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter One: Biko No access Pages 21 - 50
Chapter Two: The Existential Scandal of Antiblack Racism No access Pages 51 - 78
Chapter Three: The Mask of Bad Faith No access Pages 79 - 110
Chapter Four: The Colonial State No access Pages 111 - 130
Chapter Five: The Racist State, the Law, and Its Outlawed No access Pages 131 - 156
Chapter Six: Biko and the Problematique of Death No access Pages 157 - 194
