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Subjectivity, Shiera S. El-Malik
Interruptive Discourses: Léopold Senghor, African Emotion And The Poetry Of Politics, Shiera S. El-Malik
Interruptive Discourses: Léopold Senghor, African Emotion And The Poetry Of Politics, Shiera S. El-Malik
Shiera S el-Malik
This paper suggests that Senghor’s political and poetic work can be understood as connected to his position as a sophisticated critical thinker. In order to move past a hasty rejection of his work, one might analyse Senghor’s work as part of the more serious anti- colonial, epistemological activism that emerges in the mid-twentieth century. I argue that, for Senghor, politics is an art of interrupting discursive closures. I characterize Senghor’s thinking as focused on epistemological questions, a recognition of the embeddedness of these questions in everyday political decision-making, and an awareness of the way his own thinking develops over time. …
Presupposing The Acculturated Subject: Analyzing Identity In Practice, Shiera S. El-Malik
Presupposing The Acculturated Subject: Analyzing Identity In Practice, Shiera S. El-Malik
Shiera S el-Malik
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