The Decolonial Aesthesis of Recentering: Politics of the Past, Ecology, and Gender in Leonora Miano's Rouge Imperatrice

Leonora Miano's novel Rouge imperatrice (2019) plunges readers into the year 2124 to imagine a future for the African continent. Decolonial approaches, especially as theorized by NgUgi wa Thiong'o, demonstrate how the novel elaborates a decolonial aesthesis of recentering. This concept helps define the decolonial posture at work in it, where an imaginary return to Africa is informed by reenvisioning the past and reflecting on ecology and gender.
Introduction In the essay L'imperatif transgressif (The transgressive imperative), the Franco-Cam eroonian novelist Leonora Miano (2016b) reflects on what it means to be an African writer and adopt decolonial intellectual [...]