Decolonising the ‘epistemic decolonial turn’ in women's fiction: Tsitsi Dangarembga's<i>She No Longer Weeps</i>(1987) and Federico Garcia Lorca's<i>Dona Rosita the Spinister</i>(2008)

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Khan, Khatija Bibi

doi:10.1080/14725843.2013.839120

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“…Statements like Ophelia's present a challenge to scholars seeking to center African perspectives in their analysis, because they seem deeply informed by racist colonial accounts of Africans as “backwards” and African cultures as less “advanced.” As Africanist scholars Maurice Vambe and Khatija Khan caution, we should not assume “subaltern perspective[s] are free from … dominant values,” pointing out that this would require that “ordinary people have extraordinary capacity to detect and resist domination at all times” (Vambe and Khan , 310). Yet it would be insufficient to dismiss Ophelia's views as merely the product of domination.…”

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Marriage in Kumasi, Ghana: Locally Emergent Practices in the Colonial/Modern Gender System

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2017

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In this article, I use ethnographic and historical evidence to consider marriage as a particular locus of what Maria Lugones has called “the colonial/modern gender system.” By bringing specific research on marriage among the matrilineal Asante of Kumasi, Ghana, together with a consideration of global ideals of marriage and gender, I argue that marriage and the family are key sites through which the subjugation of women in Africa can be understood, but that this requires local and historical contextualization. To do this, I trace the emergence and current local expression of “companionate marriage,” an ideal of marriage that is associated with romantic love and personal choice, and that is often seen as a gender‐progressive marriage ideal. In Kumasi, “companionate” ideals began to emerge during the colonial period, not as an empowering force, but in complicated interactions with other gendered changes that limited wives' claims to husbands' reciprocal support and isolated women from their matrilineal kin. Today, customary marriage is often considered harmful to women and distinct from other forms of marriage; however, I show that such assumptions impose categorial differences where none may exist, and occlude the complexities of women's lives and struggles.

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Section: Marital Expectations and Conceptual Entanglementsmentioning

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Marriage in Kumasi, Ghana: Locally Emergent Practices in the Colonial/Modern Gender System

Nave¹

2017

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Decolonising the ‘epistemic decolonial turn’ in women's fiction: Tsitsi Dangarembga'sShe No Longer Weeps(1987) and Federico Garcia Lorca'sDona Rosita the Spinister(2008)

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Marriage in Kumasi, Ghana: Locally Emergent Practices in the Colonial/Modern Gender System

Marriage in Kumasi, Ghana: Locally Emergent Practices in the Colonial/Modern Gender System

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