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On the Postcolony

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University of California Press, May 18, 2001 - History - 274 pages
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his first book to be published in English—develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder, and laughter — to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
  

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User Review  - Margitte - Goodreads

A very difficult read since it is written in a academic, philosophical style, yet describes the 'Neo Africa' post Colonialism in much detail and how the nepotism, dictatorships and mal administrations ... Read full review

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Of Commandement
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On Private Indirect Government
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The Aesthetics of Vulgarity
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The Thing and Its Doubles
142
Out of the World
173
Gods Phallus
212
The Final Manner
235
Bibliography
245
Index
271
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About the author (2001)

Achille Mbembe lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of three books published in French, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun(1920-1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie (1996).

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