›The Postcolonial Game‹. Reflections on an African Postcolonial Theory of Alterity Cover Image

The Postcolonial Game‹ Überlegungen zu einer afrikanischen postkolonialen Alteritätstheorie
›The Postcolonial Game‹. Reflections on an African Postcolonial Theory of Alterity

Author(s): Stephan Mühr
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: encounter; Critical Whiteness; decoloniality; interculturality; objectivity;

Summary/Abstract: In the African-European context, alterity has a long, problematic history, which has, also from the African perspective, led to the exclusion of any possibility of an encounter. In the context of mutual alienation of discourses on European vs. African identities, the paper attempts to pave way for a responsive encounter which might occur in the field of literature. To achieve this, I will first exercise a self- and meta-critique of remarks on a hermeneutics of interculturality which I formulated ten years ago. I will then proceed to draw consequences that lay the foundations for a theory of alterity that is not postcolonial but decolonial.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 49-62
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: German