Main entry:

Mbembe, Achille, 1957-

Title & Author:

On the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.

Publication:

Description:

274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 41

Notes:
Original title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.
Introduction: Time on the Move 1 -- 1. Of Commandement 24 -- 2. On Private Indirect Government 66 -- 3. Aesthetics of Vulgarity 102 -- 4. Thing and Its Doubles 142 -- 5. Out of the World 173 -- 6. God's Phallus 212 -- Conclusion: The Final Manner 235.
Translated from the French.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/00062854.html.

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ISBN:

0520204344 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520204348 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520204352 (pbk.)
9780520204355 (pbk.)

Subject:

Power (Social sciences) Africa.
Postcolonialism Africa.
Subjectivity.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) Afrique.
Postcolonialisme Afrique.
Subsaharan Africa.
identity.
images.
African identity.
power.
State.
Colonial influence
Postcolonialism
Power (Social sciences)
Postkolonialismus
Gesellschaft
Entwicklung
Subjektivität
Postkolonialisme.
Africa Colonial influence.
Africa Politics and government.
Afrique Influence coloniale.
Africa
Afrika
Africa Social conditions 20th century.
kracht
sociaal milieu
social environment
kolonies
government
kolonisatie
colonies
geschiedenis
colonization
subjectieve evaluatie
history
etnografie
subjective evaluation
agressief gedrag
ethnography
dood
aggressive behaviour
seksueel gedrag
death
symbolen
sexual behaviour
afrika
religion
regering
libido
afbeelden
symbols
lichaamsbeeld
body image
imagery
religie
africa
volkenkunde
ethnology
International Politics
Internationale Politiek

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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 41.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295368
Call No.: BIB 241560
Status: Available