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Simatei, Peter:
East African Indian Writing and the Worlding of Diasporas.
In: Fendler, Ute ; Kohl, Marie-Anne ; Ndi Shang, Gilbert ; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph ; Vierke, Clarissa
(Hrsg.):
Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora. -
Leiden
: Brill
,
2024
. - S. 75-84
ISBN 978-90-04-68974-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689756_006
Abstract
This paper proceeds from the understanding that artworks can constitute worlds that are different from present realities. In this process of world-making, art and literature, in general, constitute fictional spaces that either contest the existing ones or are relational to them. What this means, then, is that the process of “worlding” can equally be understood as that of undoing hegemonic formations and spaces.
This article explores how diasporic writings produce political and cultural realities—imagined and utopic—that contest and transform relations based on national rootedness and territorial logic. I will use the term “world-making” to mean the artworks’ ability to contest and transform existing relations of power—whether or not these relations are subsumed under such categories as gender, religion, ethnicity, nation, class, or race—to call alternative temporalities into being. In this sense, I take diaspora-making as a constitutive process that seeks to challenge certain dominant premises, including capitalist globalization, that structure being in the world or being of the world.
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| Publikationsform: | Aufsatz in einem Buch |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Research Networks > African Studies Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 800 Literatur |
| Eingestellt am: | 11 Nov 2026 13:02 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 11 Nov 2026 13:02 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/99785 |