{"product_id":"postcolonial-identities-in-africa-pnina-werbner-9781856494168","title":"Postcolonial Identities in Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey look at the colonial legacy and how colonial identities are being reconstructed in the face of deepening social inequality across the continent. They ask how the postcolonial imagination as a highly specific, locally created and historical force reconfigures personal knowledge and how that reconfiguration shapes the moral and religious realities around the uses and abuses of postcolonial power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing case-studies, the book explores why postcolonial studies has to enunciate and interpret the distinctive languages of identity politics in all the cultural richness of their specific metaphors. It asks whether the very idea of the postcolonial conceals the continued dependence of African countries? Is the postcolonial thus merely a neo-colonial mystification, a Eurocentric product of Western scholarship in collusion with Western imperialism?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Werbner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1856494160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781856494168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Richard Werbner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939024994559,"sku":"9781856494168","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_93bad548-614f-4605-be90-ed23a81fd354.jpg?v=1681439054","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postcolonial-identities-in-africa-pnina-werbner-9781856494168","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}