Africa functions as a non-identitarian geographical situation of local practices

Evidence

The first benefit of postcolonial analysis lies in the way it treats the name “Africa.” For the name is there and we can’t get rid of it. But in postcolonial analysis Africa becomes a nonidentarian geographical situation of local practices. That is, Africa, like Australia or India or Canada, is appropriated to the business of criticism in a way that dispenses with its investment in identity. In this sense we stop talking about “African literature” in any definitional way because this term can never escape the imputation of the monolithic. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3435

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the postcolonial analytical move of treating ‘Africa’ as a non-identarian site of local practices rather than a monolithic category.