Unsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)

This essay reframes Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996) around coloniality of power and Derrida’s ethic of learning to live finally. Focusing on form or rhetorical structure, we argue that Opoku-Agyemang’s poems on Cape Coast Castle and the slave trade suggest that the p...

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Autores principales:	Rogers Asempasah, Emmanuel Saboro
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	coloniality of power cape coast castle form silence grievability opoku- agyemang Fine Arts N Arts in general NX1-820 General Works A History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e7857abc1a1e4a089508b5e50f87afaa2021-11-04T15:51:57ZUnsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)2331-198310.1080/23311983.2021.1993596https://doaj.org/article/e7857abc1a1e4a089508b5e50f87afaa2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.1993596https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1983This essay reframes Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996) around coloniality of power and Derrida’s ethic of learning to live finally. Focusing on form or rhetorical structure, we argue that Opoku-Agyemang’s poems on Cape Coast Castle and the slave trade suggest that the possibility of grievability and giving voice to the disremembered is contingent on the disavowal of silence and unsettling the coloniality of power of Cape Coast Castle. The paper shows that Cape Coast Castle is a contestatory site where imperial voice and power are confronted with alternative voices and that the disavowal of silence constitutes a potent rhetorical and ethico-political strategy for learning to live finally or futurity.Rogers AsempasahEmmanuel SaboroTaylor & Francis Grouparticlecoloniality of powercape coast castleformsilencegrievabilityopoku- agyemangFine ArtsNArts in generalNX1-820General WorksAHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesAZ20-999ENCogent Arts & Humanities, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	This essay reframes Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996) around coloniality of power and Derrida’s ethic of learning to live finally. Focusing on form or rhetorical structure, we argue that Opoku-Agyemang’s poems on Cape Coast Castle and the slave trade suggest that the possibility of grievability and giving voice to the disremembered is contingent on the disavowal of silence and unsettling the coloniality of power of Cape Coast Castle. The paper shows that Cape Coast Castle is a contestatory site where imperial voice and power are confronted with alternative voices and that the disavowal of silence constitutes a potent rhetorical and ethico-political strategy for learning to live finally or futurity.
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title	Unsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)
title_short	Unsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)
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Unsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)

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