Format:
1 online resource (410 pages)
ISBN:
9783030478797
Series Statement:
African Histories and Modernities Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Birth of the Symptom in the Postcolony -- The Anti-Colonial Spectacles of the Symptom -- A Black and White Mistake in Zimbabwe -- Mugabe: The Thing Itself -- Limits of the Post-Political -- Recovering the Lost Causes -- The Will to Power: Giving a Name to Political Extremism -- References -- Chapter 2: The Will to Power in the Postcolony -- The Pornography of Power -- Intoxications of the Will to Power -- The Fist of the Coward -- The Paradigm of War -- War by Other Means -- Mugabe as a Machiavellian -- In the Name of the Nation and Marx -- The Will to Live as the Politics of Liberation -- References -- Chapter 3: The Inventions of Robert Mugabe -- On the Formation and Production of Political Leaders -- The Family, Friends and Colleagues of Mugabe -- The Absence of the Father -- The Over-Presence of the Mother -- The Wives of Robert Mugabe -- Friends of Robert Mugabe -- Jesuitisation of Robert Mugabe -- The Education of Robert Mugabe -- The Prison Formation of Robert Mugabe -- The Ideological Intoxications of Robert Mugabe -- The Colonial Formation of Robert Mugabe -- On the Politics of the Will to Live -- References -- Chapter 4: When the Monsters Go Marching In: Mugabe the Production and Its Spectacles -- Some Uncritical Everydayness -- The Spectacle of the Saint and the Monster -- The Production of the Political Robert Mugabe -- The Production of the Intellectual Robert Mugabe -- The Production of the Guerrilla Leader -- The Imaginations of Robert Mugabe -- Mugabe: The Tragic Figure -- Mugabe: The Traitor -- Mugabe: The Scholar and the Diplomat -- Mugabe: The Lucifer -- Presentations and Representations of Mugabe -- A Political Philosophy of Mugabeism -- The Madness of Robert Mugabe -- References -- Chapter 5: A Career of Madness: Performances of the Will to Power.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030478780
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030478780
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mugabe, Robert 1924-2019
;
Simbabwe
