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On The Postcolony By Achille Mbembe (Paperback, 2001)
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial 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 post colonial 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 post colonial discourse history anthropology philosophy political science psychoanalysis and literary criticism
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 post colonial discourse history anthropology philosophy political science psychoanalysis and literary criticism
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