At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke
In this response I challenge the neglect of postcolonial theory in Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in Côte d'Ivoire and argue instead for its inclusion as a resource for immanent critique. I argue that Grillo's text enhances and enriches...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Rezension |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2019]
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Journal of Africana religions
Jahr: 2019, Band: 7, Heft: 2, Seiten: 291-299 |
| Rezension von: | An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (Duke University Press, 2018) (Hawthorne, Sîan Melvill) |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Afrika
/ Feminismus
/ Postkolonialismus
/ Zeitlichkeit
/ Religionswissenschaft
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Religionswissenschaft AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KBN Subsahara-Afrika NBE Anthropologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this response I challenge the neglect of postcolonial theory in Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in Côte d'Ivoire and argue instead for its inclusion as a resource for immanent critique. I argue that Grillo's text enhances and enriches the way we may think about time and politics in the postcolonial moment, but that it may in turn also be revitalised and strengthened by speaking with and to postcolonial thought, adding it to the lexicon and strategies of displacement Grillo identifies in practices of female genital power and the matri-archive they reference. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Bezug: | Kritik in "Excavating the Matri-archive (2019)"
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| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0291 |
