Mbembe, A
On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society & Culture)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780520204355
- author:
- Mbembe, A
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of California Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2001
- Pages:
- 292
- Dimensions:
- 23.14 x 15.6 x 2.41 centimetres
- Genre:
- African history
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony is a groundbreaking collection of essays that profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. Mbembe contests key assumptions of postcolonial theory, developing and extending debates first ignited by his 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony." This thought-provoking book offers new perspectives on the constitution of power, reinterpreting concepts such as death, utopia, and the divine libido. Mbembe works with complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection. His work challenges the social theory of the late twentieth century, making a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. This provocative book will attract attention with its signal contribution to ongoing debates in these fields.
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