{"product_id":"diplomatic-para-citations-genre-foreign-bodies-and-the-ethics-of-co-habitation-9781786615848","title":"Diplomatic Para-citations: Genre, Foreign Bodies,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement (by James Der Derian, Costas Constantinou, Noe Cornago et al), this book turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the ‘genres of Man’ that they privilege. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an attempt to read ‘the diplomatic’ from the African postcolony, the book probes the injunction at the center of the law of genre that states that ‘genres are not to be mixed.’ This enables it to investigate the citational\/recitational forms of knowledge and practices of recognition that reproduce the diplomatic and colonial order of things in the African context. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a reading of literature, philosophy, and a multiplicity of everyday practices in Africa and its diasporas, the book explores amateur diplomatic practices that provide a counter-force to laws that prescribe faithfulness to a norm\/form while proscribing the mixing of genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main themes running through the theoretical and fictional texts include: amateur diplomacies, colonial laws of genre and genres of ‘man’, and the ethics of co-habitation. The different chapters focus on multiple conceptions of the foreign body (as extra-terrestrial aliens, disease, foreign organ, monsters, diplomats, non-citizens etc), postcolonial urban life,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Epiparasites\/Introductory Fragments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ghosts of Eugene-Terre-Blanche \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Laws and Lore of Genre \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Apocalypsis: Para-citing and Becoming Malcolm X \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Counting with Sister Hypatia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Bios\/Entanglements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Philopoesis and\/as Resistance (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Postscripts (Short Story)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Biocolonial and Racial Entanglements (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Becoming with’ HIV\/AIDS (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Home\/Abjection \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Inner-wares (Novella)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Inter-city Half-lives (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. In Extremis: Diplomacies, Extremism, and Enmity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Letters to Yvonne: Words and\/as Worlds (Letters)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Fishers-of-Men: A Lamentation (Poem)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Counting Silently\/Discretely: A Dirge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: Speculations\/Hospitalities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Childhood, Redemption, and the Prosaics of Waiting (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Children of the Sand and Sea (Poem)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Migricide, Hospitality, and Horror (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Speculum\/Speculations\/On Birthing Tomorrow (Poem)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Five: Stagings\/Falsifications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. Cinema-Body-Thought (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18. Cinema is Our ‘Night School’ (Essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19. Stagecraft\/Statecraft\/Mancraft \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20. Abusive Fidelities: Diplomacy and\/as Translation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: St. Augustine’s Phallus: Love, Diplomacy, and the Will-to-Convert\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042481635671,"sku":"9781786615848","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786615848.jpg?v=1750954327","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diplomatic-para-citations-genre-foreign-bodies-and-the-ethics-of-co-habitation-9781786615848","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}