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International and Area Studies

Shiera S el-Malik

Selected Works

2016

Dialogue

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El-Malik_Reading Imaginative Futures Across Historical Moments.Pdf, Shiera S. Malik Nov 2016

El-Malik_Reading Imaginative Futures Across Historical Moments.Pdf, Shiera S. Malik

Shiera S el-Malik

Léopold Sédar Senghor’s 1961 Speech at Oxford University is a provocative and critical intervention during what is generally considered to be a decolonisation period. It is a speech that en- gages across eras, and one from which we can glean insights on how to nourish ideas and modes of thinking that may be needed in this historical moment. With it, Senghor illustrates the importance of humanism for interlocutory dialogue, which is necessary to transcend delimiting and violent kinds of relations. is article deploys the idea of surreptitious speech to examine how Senghor makes these arguments in a crevice moment. I …