Rethinking the Global South
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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Èdouard Glissant’s view of being “in relation“ offers a way out of the locked postcolonial dialectics. For Glissant “The poet’s word leads from periphery to periphery and yes, it reproduces the track of circular nomadism; that is, it makes every periphery into a center; furthermore it abolishes the very notion of center and periphery“ (31).3 There is no hierarchy of knowledge and aristocracy of aesthetics4, only cultures in relation. Glissant championed composite peoples: “those who could not deny or mask their hybrid composition, nor sublimate it in the notion of a mythical pedigree, do not ’need’ the idea of genesis because they do not need the myth of pure lineage (141). Composite works better than hybridity. Identity is formed by interactions with the other cultures. I have been formed by Kenyan, Asian, Islamic and Western cultures. In much the same way a composite Asian or Briton has been formed by as many cultures as their cultures have interacted with. In a sense, whether we acknowledge it or not, we live in what Glissant calls a “fragmented diversity,“ and we are all creolized. composite cultures. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
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