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| Title: | The making and unmaking of consciousness: two strategies for survival in a Sudanese borderland |
| Author: | Okazaki, Akira |
| Book title: | Postcolonial subjectivities in Africa |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Pages: | 63-83 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | social environment Gamk Nuba |
| Abstract: | This chapter documents how the Nuba and Gamk of the ill-defined borderland between Northern and Southern Sudan form alternative subjectivities. Both Nuba and Gamk have been oppressed by outsiders, mainly by northern Sudanese but sometimes also by southern Sudanese. Both have borne the brunt of an ill-advised World Bank policy. Yet each people has found a distinctive strategy, using one form of consciousness or another. For the Nuba, cultural consciousness comes in and through armed resistance to domination. By contrast, the Gamk resort to ritual rather than political violence, and what they rely on as a strategic subjectivity for survival is dream consciousness. Gamk dreaming is far from merely personal or subjective experience, but a social and intersubjective activity in which many people participate. In this way, dreams are involved in their historical, economic, political, religious and therapeutic processes. The conclusion from this comparison is that it is the Gamk strategy for survival, not the Nuba one for resistance, that renders them less vulnerable in the face of the unwelcome outside intervention in their lives. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
