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On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 41)
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On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 41) Paperback - 2001

by Mbembe, Achille

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University of California Press, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. No dust jacket (possibly as issued/university press). Green boards have mild wear. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.
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  • Title On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 41)
  • Author Mbembe, Achille
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000203
  • ISBN 9780520204355 / 0520204352
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.11 x 6.14 x 0.95 in (23.14 x 15.60 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Subjectivity, Postcolonialism - Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00062854
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.309

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From the publisher

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.

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About the author

Achille Mbembe lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of three books published in French, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun(1920-1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie (1996).

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