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Journal Article
Homo Amens: Epistemological Thanatopolitics and the Postcolonial Zombie
2020
Overview
This study identifies a recurring yet overlooked figure in global ethnic and diasporic literature that I term homo amens. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's concept of homo sacer and the postcolonial zombie, I argue that homo amens (\"the man without a mind\") is a powerful symbol of biopolitical violence that transgresses against immaterial bodies of knowledge—including indigenous cultural, familial, and scientific structures—instead of the material body. By focusing on the \"epistemological zombie\" in Erna Brodber's Myal (1988), John Okada's No-No Boy (1957), and Jonny Steinberg's Sizwe's Test (2008), I foreground the preservation of traditional knowledge as a political right and make the case for global ethnic literature as an instrument of epistemological equality.
