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Book SynopsisNdlovu provides an insightful evaluation of what could constitute an `authentic' indigenous agency among the colonial subalterns in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and the Americas. A sharp critique of the performance of indigeneity under modernity and coloniality which challenges Western stereotypes of colonised subjects.
Trade Review'In this enriching book, Morgan Ndlovu has joined the exalted list of intellectuals of the Global South such as Valentin Mudimbe and Edward Said that have been called 'whistle blowers against ideologies of Otherness.' How coloniality of knowledge masquerades as indigeneity is unmasked and the many-layered onion of cultural imperialism is peeled. This is a disobedient decolonial treatise that throws a telling tantrum at the cognitive Empire' -- William Mpofu, University of the Witwatersrand 'A magisterial study that draws our attention to the dark side of colonial imaginaries of indigeneity and cultural tourism in the post-colony. Ndlovu is profound and prosaic, this book joins the ranks of contemporary voices from the Global South that can only be ignored at our own peril' -- Finex Ndhlovu, Associate Professor of Language in Society, University of New England, Australia
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Why Performing Indigeneity Matters 2. Decolonising the Drama-Stage Conundrum 3. The Invasion of African Culture 4. Being and Becoming Zulu in Modern/Colonial South Africa 5. The Idea of Cultural Villages in South Africa 6. The Crisis of Indigenous Agency in Cultural Villages 7. Being and Becoming a Traditional Healer in Modern South Africa 8. Performing Indigeneity: A Global Perspective Appendix: List of Cultural Villages in South Africa References Index
