Women and Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire (Signs of Race) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312296029 ISBN 13: 9780312296025

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

This volume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa. It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society 'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to the spectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on 'encounter', that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa. Through this, we depart from the standard state versus society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape.

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Synopsis:

The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, in history, and in contemporary culture generally. Beginning with the metaphor of 'the other woman' as a repository for the 'otherness' of all women in a masculinist-racist society, the discussion moves to elucidate the way discourses of race and sexuality thwart the realization of true inter-racial sisterhood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312296029
• ISBN 13: 9780312296025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Daileader C., Johnson R., Shabazz A., Beidler Philip, Taylor Gary