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On the Postcolony
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2001-04-01
Publication Date:
2001-06-17
Publisher:
University of California Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0520204352
ISBN13:
9780520204355
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
436 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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