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Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness

Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness

Sithole, Tendayi

Hardcover

Series: Critical Africana Studies

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1498518184
ISBN13: 9781498518185
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of events, something that is popular in the literature of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness. Rather, a theoretical imagination and conceptual invention is engaged upon in order to situate Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. The theoretical imagination and conceptual invention fosters an interpretive approach and an ongoing critique that cannot reach any epistemic closure. This is what decolonial meditations are all about, opening up new vistas of thought and new modes of critique informed by epistemic breaks from empirical absolutism that reduce Biko to an epistemic catalogue. It is in Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness that the black subject is engaged not only in the politics of criticism for its own sake, but philosophy of existence.

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