Postmodern Epistemophilia

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" Postmodern Epistemophilia "
Tasiyana D. Javangwe

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076711
Doc. No	:	LA120340
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04801012‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Tasiyana D. Javangwe
Title & Author	:	Postmodern Epistemophilia [Article]\ Tasiyana D. Javangwe
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	48/1
Page No	:	180–191
Abstract	:	The postmodern promises to transcend all conventional or traditional ways of knowing and understanding both the self’s experience and the world that the self inhabits. Postmodern existence is characterized by a desire to reformulate how, as persons, individuals have come to know themselves and to relate to those who are in their lives and to the ‘knowledges’ that used to define their being prior to psychological sojourns into the postmodern world. This essay seeks to interrogate the ways in which the character(s) in Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools (2005), particularly the main character, desire and drift towards an epistemic knowing and naming of a postmodern self in an environment that tends to insist on traditional ways of social behaviour and family relations. The essay argues that characters in this novel are caught up in the conflict between a postmodern desire to know and name personal experience differently and the maintenance of relationship structures as defined in a set-up of African traditions. The act of writing, which is what Farai, the main character, is engaged in, is expressive of that desire to explore new modes of knowing and naming both self experience and relations that govern both personal and communal relations in Zimbabwe’s Shona culture.
Descriptor	:	cultural nihilism
Descriptor	:	epistemophilia
Descriptor	:	postmodern identity
Descriptor	:	psychic alienation
Descriptor	:	resurgence of folk tradition
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04801012‬