The Decolonial Aesthesis of Recentering: Politics of the Past, Ecology, and Gender in Léonora Miano’s Rouge Impératrice

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Abstract

Léonora Miano’s novel Rouge impératrice (2019) plunges readers into the year 2124 to imagine a future for the African continent. Decolonial approaches, especially as theorized by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, demonstrate how the novel elaborates a decolonial aesthesis of recentering. This concept helps define the decolonial posture at work in it, where an imaginary return to Africa is informed by reenvisioning the past and reflecting on ecology and gender.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-21
JournalAfrica Today
Volume70
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes

Funding

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German Research Foundation (DFG)442316037

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