LEADER 03974nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910959744003321 005 20251117120159.0 010 $a9786613520234 010 $a9780520917538 010 $a0520917537 010 $a9781597347839 010 $a1597347833 010 $a9781280080180 010 $a1280080183 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(dli)HEB02640 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005053741 035 $a(Perlego)552228 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 /$fAchille Mbembe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 1 $aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v41 225 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v41 300 $aOriginal title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie. 311 0 $a9780520204348 311 0 $a0520204344 311 0 $a9780520204355 311 0 $a0520204352 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 $aSubjectivity 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aSubjectivity. 676 $a302.3/096 700 $aMbembe$b Achille$f1957-$0289893 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959744003321 996 $aOn the postcolony$917248 997 $aUNINA