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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie. English".
- catalog contributor b12194776.
- catalog coverage "Africa Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-269) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "274 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520204344 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520204352 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies on the history of society and culture ; 41".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "302.3/096 21".
- catalog subject "HN780.Z9 P66413 2001".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism Africa.".
- catalog subject "Power (Social sciences) Africa.".
- catalog subject "Subjectivity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie. English".
- catalog title "On the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.".
- catalog type "text".