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Unreasonable Histories
- Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Unreasonable Histories
- Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence-including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, Unreasonable Histories ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and for the future.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780822357254
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0822357259
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 dec 2014
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
4 dec 2014
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