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African Modes of Self-Writing
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 239–273.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Achille Mbembe © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book is On the Postcolony (2001). African Modes...
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Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Harry Garuba © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Harry Garuba teaches at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. His recent publications include “Negotiating the(Post)Colonial Impasse: Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel and Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers...
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“Come Up to the Kool Taste”: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 May 2003
... is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States. “Come Up to the Kool Taste”:
African American Upward
Mobility and the Semiotics...
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From Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Saidou Mohamed N'Daou
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Jesse Weaver Shipley © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Saidou Mohamed N'Daou teaches history at Chicago State University. Jesse Weaver Shipley is an assistant professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Bard College. His recent research and publications...
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Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers: Hind Swaraj and Its South African Audiences
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 285–297.
Published: 01 May 2011
... , the newspaper he edited in South Africa, where he spent twenty-one years. This article asks what it means to reinstate this South African reader in Gandhi's seminal text. What implications would this diasporic reader have for Gandhi's thinking and ideas of Indian nationalism more generally? What might...
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On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman's Claim to Locality
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 January 2000
... and has worked with battered sub-Saharan immigrant women in Paris. On the Predicament of the
Sign: The Modern African
Woman’s Claim to Locality
Fatu Kande Senghor
Fatu Kande Senghor is a writer
and photographer who is
currently Program Specialist for
the Cultural Program at the
Goree...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 347–372.
Published: 01 September 2004
... for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg. She is coeditor of Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia (1996), Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (1998), and Senses of Culture: South African Culture...
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History as Confession: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 119–141.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Deborah Posel Duke University Press 2008 History as Confession:
The Case of the South African Truth
and Reconciliation Commission
Deborah Posel
In the iconic history of human suffering...
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Save the African Continent
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 61–62.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., that there is a Western con-
spiracy. In both cases, the only way to go beyond Mbembe’s text would be
to write a treatise on “African decomposition” that would match, for exam-
ple, the philosophical reflection of Cioran on the very concept of decom-
position, and thus promote a rarefied nihilist attitude...
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Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 107–146.
Published: 01 January 1994
...Elsa Barkley Brown Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Negotiating and Transforming
the Public Sphere: African
American Political Life in the
Transition from Slavery...
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Race, Identity and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 1994
...Steven Gregory Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Race, Identity and Political
Activism: The Shifting Contours
of the African American
Public Sphere...
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On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 On Tracking World Cinema:
African Cinema at Film Festivals
Manthia Diawara
The Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) convened...
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X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 249–274.
Published: 01 January 1994
...: University of Minnesota Press, 234 -256. Wood , Joe . 1992. “Malcolm X and the New Blackness.” In Joe Wood, ed., Malcolm X: In Our Own Image. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1 -17. X Marks the Spot: The
Ambiguities of African Trading...
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Photo Essays Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May 1994 Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders and Democracy
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 95–105.
Published: 01 January 1994
... Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 PHOTO ESSAYS
Hope Reclaimed:
South African Elections May I994
Refuge Refused:
Haitians, Borders and Democracy
The Sun shall never set on so glorious a
h um...
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The Pan-African Nation: Oil-Money and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 441–466.
Published: 01 September 1996
....” Journal of Modern African Studies 20 ( 3 ): 431 -450. Baudrillard , Jean . 1975 . The Mirror of Production . Trans. M. Poster. St. Louis: Telos Press. Baudrillard , Jean . 1983 . Simulacra and Simulations . Trans. P. Foss et al. New York: Semiotext(e). Bennett , Tony . 1988...
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Afro-Modernity: Temporality, Politics, and the African Diaspora
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Michael Hanchard Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Afro-Modernity: Temporality,
Politics, and the African
Diaspora
Michael Hanchard
P
eople of African descent have...
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Resounding Souls : Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Cheryl A. Wall © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Cheryl A. Wall teaches African American literature in the English department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her latest book is Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (2005...
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Can There Be a Subaltern Middle Class? Notes on African American and Dalit History
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., modern, and unmarked. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 PLOTTING DISTINCTION AND EXCLUSION
Can There Be a Subaltern Middle
Class? Notes on African American
and Dalit...
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Tropical Skins: Climate, Character, and the Postindependence African Subject
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
... discourse, primarily referring to plants but also to colonists’ potential to settle in foreign environments. Instead of reframing the problem, Fry and Drew displaced acclimatization from colonizers to West African elites. While lamenting the fact that modern tropical subjects prefer to dress in Western...
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Keeping Africanity Open
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 621–623.
Published: 01 September 2002
...). Bernabé, Jean, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant. 1989 . Eloge de la créolité . Paris: Gallimard. Mafeje, Archie. 2000 . Africanity: An ontological combat. CODESRIA Bulletin , no. 1 : 66 -71. Nkrumah, Kwame. 1964 . Consciencism:Philosophy and ideology for decolonization...
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