The Royal Remains

Santner, Éric L.

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“…The corollary of the king's two bodies is that his mortal body has the potential to become more mortal than other bodies: an abject thing of horror. 41 Certainly, one result of the hubristic identification of the ruler with the state is that African dictators have also been, as Mbembe points out, more mortal, more embodied than other rulers. In Cheikh Aliou Ndao's novel MBaam Dictateur, a dictator called Wor of an unnamed country is transformed into Mbaam ngonk, a big donkey.…”

Section: States In Africa and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 99%

The Half Lives of African Fictive States

Kortenaar¹

2019

Postcolon. Lit. inq

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On or about February 1966, African literature changed. The coups that overthrew the First Republic in Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, and the Kabaka of Buganda divide the history of African literature in two: the period just before and after most of Africa became independent, and the period from 1966 to at least 2006, the year of publication of Ngũgĩ's Wizard of the Crow. 1 Literature registered the impact of the coups as a disruption in the setting of the nation-state that novels routinely share with the news and history books. Whereas Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease, published in 1960, the year of Nigerian independence, takes the particular state for granted, after 1966 it became a straightforward matter for African authors to set a novel in a fictive state, a state in every significant way like the author's own but not found on extratextual maps. Novelists could always, it seems, now imagine another African republic

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Section: States In Africa and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 99%

The Half Lives of African Fictive States

Kortenaar¹

2019

Postcolon. Lit. inq

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“…30 This uncanny surplus describes what remains of transcendence. 31 It is what passes from the divine sovereignty of the King to the popular sovereignty of the People.…”

Section: Post-secular Jurisprudence:the New Visual Economy Of Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thi~ is the enigmatic flesh of the law imagined in terms of a sublime materiality. 33 An economy ("oikonomia") imagined as that space in which we manage the material world (of goods and institutions) in the image of something uncontainable, something sublime.…”

Section: Post-secular Jurisprudence:the New Visual Economy Of Presencementioning

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“…Quoting Clark: "In the cult of Marat [David saw] the first forms of a liturgy and ritual iri which the truths of the revolution itself would be made flesh-People, Nation, Virtue, Reason, Liberty." 39 But how would such a "liturgy" find an appropriate form of expression? Santner discerns an aesthetic revolution at work in David's painting.…”

Section: Reimagining the Visual Economy Of Post-secular Jurisprudencementioning

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“…What we are witnessing is a profound shift in the visual economy of law and politics. According to Santner, the inability to represent the royal remains in the transcendental body of the People (an aporia he refers to as "representational deadlock") 42 describes the status of popular sovereignty in the post-Revolutionary age of modernity. The masses who once comprised the Hobbesian Leviathan (pictured in the famous frontispiece of Hobbes' mid-seventeenth-century political handbook) have now dissolved into an absence.…”

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This article examines the use of quotation in British political rhetoric since 1945. It argues that quotations are not only a source of authority, but a way of claiming authorisation. The article also shows how, through quotations, party leaders try to establish connections between themselves and the common cultural resources of their audience, and how they attempt to show fidelity to a tradition even as they try to redirect it. The conclusion is that rhetorical analysis exposes the symbolic, ritualised aspect of contemporary political and ideological practices, the understanding of which requires the integration of rhetorical and performance theories

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The Royal Remains

Cited by 9 publications

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