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On the postcolony (Paperback)
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On the postcolony (Paperback)
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First published in 2001, Achille Mbembe's landmark book, On the
postcolony, continues to renew our understanding of power and
subjectivity in Africa. This edition has been updated with a
foreword by professor of African literature, Isabel Hofmeyr, and a
preface by the author. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe
contests die hard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as
some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. Through his
provocation, the `banality of power', 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 in
Africa. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity
- violence, wonder and laughter - to contest categories of
oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and
civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth
century. On the postcolony, like Frantz Fanon's Black skins, white
masks, will remain a text of profound importance in the discourse
of anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles.
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