On the Postcolony

Name: On the Postcolony
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ISBN: 9780520204355

ISBN-10: 0520204352

ISBN-13: 9780520204355

Edition: 2002

Authors: Achille Mbembe

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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,…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction: Time on the Move



Of Commandement



On Private Indirect Government



The Aesthetics of Vulgarity



The Thing and Its Doubles



Out of the World



God's Phallus


Conclusion: The Final Manner


Bibliography


Index