The fragile ‘absolute’: Heremakhonon and the crisis of representation and historical consciousness

Asempasah, Rogers; Traore, Moussa

dc.contributor.author	Asempasah, Rogers
dc.contributor.author	Traore, Moussa
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-29T10:24:27Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-29T10:24:27Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.issn	23105496
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6561
dc.description	9p:, ill.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The Diasporian subject’s encounter with Africa, framed around the trope of return to Africa, constitutes a crucial part of the poetics and discourse of Negritude and Afrocentrism. However, until Heremakhonon’s intervention the condition of possibility of this trope was hardly contested and refuted. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze this article examines the criticality of encounter in Heremakhonon. Encounter in Heremakhonon emphasises experiential contact as a strategy for a radical tropological deconstruction of the return to Africa. We contend that Veronica Mercier’s existential struggle in Heremakhonon dramatizes a broader crisis of representation and historical consciousness	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Cape Coast	en_US
dc.subject	Afrocentrism	en_US
dc.subject	Conde	en_US
dc.subject	Deleuze	en_US
dc.subject	Encounter	en_US
dc.subject	Existentialism	en_US
dc.subject	Eurocentrism	en_US
dc.subject	Heremakhonon	en_US
dc.title	The fragile ‘absolute’: Heremakhonon and the crisis of representation and historical consciousness	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US