Postcolonial Subjectivities In Africa

Abstract

* INTRODUCTION Postcolonial Subjectivities: The Personal, The Political and the Moral - Richard Werbner * PART ONE Consciousness, Conscience and the Other * 1. Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Post-Modern Colony - Michael Lambek * 2. I am like a movie star in my street: Photographic Self-creation in Postcolonial Kenya - Heike Behrend * 3. The Making and Unmaking of Consciousness: Nuba and Gamk Strategies for Survival in a Sudanese Borderland - Akira Okazaki * 4. Gendered Violence and the Militarization of Ethnicity: A Case Study from South Sudan - Sharon Elaine Hutchinson and Jok Madut Jok * PART TWO Uncertainties, subjection and the subjunctive * 5. 'A child is one person's only in the womb': Domestication, Agency and Subjectivity in the Cameroonian Grassfields - Francis B. Nyamnjoh * 6. Uncertain Citizens: Herero and the New Intercalary Subject in Postcolonial Botswana - Deborah Durham * 7. Subjectivity and Subjunctivity: Hoping for Health in Eastern Uganda - Susan Reynolds Whyte * 8. Ancestral Incests and Postcolonial Subjectivities in the Karembola (Madagascar) - Karen Middleton * AFTERWORD Provoking Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa - Paul Stoller

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