The politics of biography in Africa : borders, margins, and alternative histories of power /: borders, margins, and alternative histories of power. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anaïs Angelo.
• Editors: Angelo, Anaïs, 1987-
• Contents: Foreword. Fugitive freedoms, Grace Musila Introduction, Anaïs Angelo Part 1: Scales, borders and frameworks Chapter 1. What are the boundaries of African political biography?, Martin Mourre, Ophélie Rillon, Alexis Roy Chapter 2. Deconstructing heroic biography: Bibi Titi Mohamed, public history, and nation building, Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch Chapter 3. Fighting for national liberation in Africa: pan-African itineraries and national settlements, Sakiko Nakao Part 2: Autobiographies as construction sites of power Chapter 4. Tactics of intervention: Manipulating the "problematic self" in Janet Kataaha Museveni's A Life, Marciana Nafula Were Chapter 5. Between truth and inventions. How public commemorations recite the biography of Amílcar Cabral, Víctor Barros Chapter 6. Exploring borderlines of power in and through the auto/biographies of Ronnie Kasrils, Birgit Englert Part 3: Hide and seek: women, politics and biography writing Chapter 7. "Frieda von Bülow and Bibi Titi Mohammed: (De)colonised feminism in Tanzania, Diana Maria Naetermann Chapter 10. Silenced no more: Doria Shafik speaks, Nada Halloway Chapter 8. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: A thwarted political destiny, Marianne Séverin Chapter 9. Motherhood, and Sisterhood as alternative discourses of power Postscriptum. Getting to grips with "political biographies", Kirsten Rüther
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 960.072; Africa -- Historiography; Africa -- Biography -- History and criticism; Africa -- Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000432688; 9781000432657; 9781003133452
• Related ISBNs: 9780367544249
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