On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.-
The New Cultural History
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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
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Beyond the Pale
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Beyond the Cultural Turn
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The Wedding of the Dead
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Speaking with Vampires
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Iconography of Power
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Possessing Nature
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Private Lives and Public Affairs
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Wondrous in His Saints
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Passions of the Tongue
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The Emancipation of Writing
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The Emerging Female Citizen
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What Difference Does a Husband Make?
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Politics and Theater
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France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart
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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
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Hooliganism
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The Fabrication of Labor
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Territories of Grace
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Venice's Hidden Enemies
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Women Writing Opera
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Moral Communities
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Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
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Producing Desire
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Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris
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An Ottoman Tragedy
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Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
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Crescendo of the Virtuoso
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The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
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Fascist Spectacle
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Listening in Paris
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The New Biography
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The Frail Social Body
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Obstinate Hebrews
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The Collective and the Individual in Russia
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Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914
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The Struggle for the Breeches
"Chillingly realistic yet also poetic, On the Postcolony offers the reader a brilliant and visionary tour of postcolonial Africa. . . Packed with illuminating insights and innovative theoretical approaches to familiar problems, this work not only redraws the boundaries of African studies and postcolonial studies, but also offers a significant contribution to political theory and philosophy." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
"Brilliantly written." * International Affairs *
"Mbembe is an essayist of fitful brilliance." * African Affairs *
"Together, the essays demonstrate the consistent evolution of Mbembe's innovative and unique postcolonial theory. . . . Fueled by his signature notion of the political imaginary, Mbembe sculpts a new language for Africa, one liberated from the confines of the Western "universalist" scholarly tradition." * Canadian Journal of African Studies *
"Brilliantly written." * International Affairs *
"Mbembe is an essayist of fitful brilliance." * African Affairs *
"Together, the essays demonstrate the consistent evolution of Mbembe's innovative and unique postcolonial theory. . . . Fueled by his signature notion of the political imaginary, Mbembe sculpts a new language for Africa, one liberated from the confines of the Western "universalist" scholarly tradition." * Canadian Journal of African Studies *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780520204355 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520204352 |
| Title | On the Postcolony |
| Author | Achille Mbembe |
| Series | Studies On The History Of Society And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2001-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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