LEADER 03696nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910449749203321 005 20210603234716.0 010 $a0-520-91753-7 010 $a1-59734-783-3 010 $a9786613520234 010 $a1-280-08018-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520917538 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005722 035 $a(EBL)224434 035 $a(OCoLC)475931242 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10187732 035 $a(PQKB)10792646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224434 035 $a(DE-B1597)519559 035 $a(OCoLC)49570017 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520917538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10053549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL352023 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005722 100 $a20000803d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn the postcolony$b[electronic resource] /$fAchille Mbembe 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 1 $aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v41 300 $aOriginal title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie. 311 0 $a0-520-20434-4 311 0 $a0-520-20435-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-269) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Time on the Move --$t1. Of Commandment --$t2. On Private Indirect Government --$t3. The Aesthetics of Vulgarity --$t4. The Thing and Its Doubles --$t5. Out of the World --$t6. God's Phallus --$tConclusion: The Final Manner --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAchille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Post-colony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays-his first book to be published in English-develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Post-colony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. 410 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v41. 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zAfrica 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 606 $aSubjectivity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aSubjectivity. 676 $a302.3/096 700 $aMbembe?$b J.-A.$f1957-$0289893 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449749203321 996 $aOn the postcolony$917248 997 $aUNINA