Format:
1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780520917538
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture 41
Uniform Title:
Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie
Content:
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
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Time on the Move -- 1. Of Commandement -- 2. On Private Indirect Government -- 3. The Aesthetics of Vulgarity -- 4. The Thing and Its Doubles -- 5. Out of the World -- 6. God's Phallus -- Conclusion: The Final Manner -- Bibliography -- Index
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-269
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520204355
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520204348
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mbembe, Achille, 1957 - On the postcolony Berkeley [u.a.] : University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0520204352
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520204344
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520204355
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
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General works
Keywords:
Afrika
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Entkolonialisierung
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Afrika
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Gewalt
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Kolonie
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Postkolonialismus
DOI:
10.1525/9780520917538
URL:
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Author information:
Mbembe, Achille 1957-
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