Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity by Morgan Ndlouv

Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality by Morgan Ndlouv
 
Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality. In this book, Morgan Ndlovu asks why people help support a system responsible for their own subjugation.

Morgan Ndlovu provides a critique of the agency of the colonised subjects as exercised under coloniality. Eschewing abstract theory, he takes a 'bottom up' approach to theorising the agency of indigenous people. Through analysis of the experiences of the performance of indigeneity and the staged representations of commodified culture in South Africa, he recognises the efforts of the colonised subjects and the conditions under which they survive. However, he also cautions against choices and actions that may aggravate their conditions.

Performing Indigeneity provides an insightful evaluation of what could constitute an 'authentic' indigenous agency among the colonial subalterns in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and the Americas.
 
Number of pages:
224
Weight:
316g
Height:
141mm
Width:
222mm
Spine width:
25mm